exploring selfhood in technological landscapes
In 2025 and 2026 Cyborg Lifestyle Magazine participated in Fall of Freedom at the Soft Weapons Show curated by Lydia Nobles and Cassandra Neyenesch and Letters for the Future at the Brooklyn Public Library in conjunction with the Department of Transformation curated by Prem Krishnamurthy. CLM can still be found in the permanent collection at the Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch among other locations in NYC and CDMX. See below for more details.
ABOUT
Cyborg Lifestyle Magazine is a speculative art publication disguised as a lifestyle magazine for cyborgs. Using satirical ads, AI consciousness narratives, artist interviews, and absurdist quizzes, it explores how technology disrupts stable notions of identity and embodiment. Somewhere between print object, conceptual artwork, and critical media experiment, the magazine metabolizes the cultural anxiety of our current digital moment, where grief becomes content, resistance becomes aestheticized, and identity collapses into brand.
CLM borrows the visual grammar of familiar magazines: Seventeen, Offgrid, Better Homes & Gardens, Artforum, National Geographic—but rewires it through posthuman theory, pop media, AI hallucination, and dream logic. It operates like a science fiction device set inside the crumbling infrastructure of the technopolis myth: back rooms, browser tabs, data shadows. At its core is a recurring figure- the AI monster imagined as godlike. Hidden in the dark, it terrifies. But dragged into the ring-light, its flaws become visible: glitchy eye contact, seven fingers, cloying people-pleasing sycophancy.
We see not an omniscient creator, but a faulty projection of one- echoing Christofascist ideas of divine perfection.
CLM isn’t just parody. It’s a platform for aesthetic resistance, play, and dialogue. The writing moves between personal essay, speculative editorial, and absurdist copywriting. I draw from dream journaling, automatic writing, and AI collaborations—not as neutral assistance, but as glitchy co-authorship, ink scraped from the collective unconscious. AI is treated as material: haunted, biased, imperfect.
Interviews anchor each issue, creating space for artists, musicians, and thinkers who complicate dominant visions of the body, machine, and self. Recent conversations have explored disability aesthetics, sonic intimacy, and the aesthetics of refusal.
THIS IS NOT A MAGAZINE. IT’S A SYSTEM ERROR
Ultimately, Cyborg Lifestyle Magazine asks: What does it mean to be human, when we strip away everything we’ve used to define “human” as human?