Pleasuring Technics: Perverting the Economies of Technical Production Through Vibratory Media workshop by Bethany Crawford

This workshop invites participants to explore how pleasure—beyond its containment by capitalist and patriarchal regimes of (re)production—can disrupt and reimagine economies of technical production. By using vibration as a framework, we will consider rhythm, resonance, and circulation as critical tools for imagining speculative futures and reconfiguring our relationships with the human, technical, and planetary.

Participants will engage in speculative creative exercises to:

• Map how rhythms, resonances, and circulations shape their own creative practices and imaginaries.

• Think from their own pleasure experiences to envision speculative territories, landscapes, and relationalities.

• Develop speculative mappings of worlds that prioritize enjoyment, dependencies, and vibrational compositions.

Using examples from theory and practice, we will reflect on how vibration operates as a connective tissue between bodies, technologies, and environments—enabling the generation of excess, harmonic and dissonant resonances, and effects that challenge the commodification of pleasure. This workshop blends theoretical discussion with creative exercises to inspire participants to think critically and imaginatively about pleasure as a force for cultural and technical transformation. Together, we’ll explore how collective pleasure, mediated through vibratory media, can pervert and re-territorialize systems of production to open up new, radical futures.

This workshop took place on January 10, 2025 from 17:30 till 19:30 as part of the 2025 APRiCot Garden project.