Everything Is Computer

Federico Zurani, Laura Cugusi &

Machine Yearning aka Nada Zanhour

Betonhalle

Everything Is Computer is a “game essay” set in the aftermath of a Thielian apocalypse, where a Superintelligence/AGI cult has taken over, devoured the earth's marrow and drained humans of their life force.

In a spectral landscape of decaying architecture of startup dreams and broken pitch decks, the delusional myths of tech-bro culture are left entangled with the ideological fallout of techno-libertarian prophets. As players navigate its ruins, they sift through venture capital slogans turned scripture and user manuals reborn as sacred texts, piecing together the fragmented mythos the cult has left behind, in an act of ideological excavation to uncover the hidden beliefs that once powered the machine-god empire.

The game’s narrative emerges from the digital footprint of Silicon Valley’s self-declared visionaries such as Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and Sam Altman, among many others orbiting the tech-broligarc circle jerk. Tweets, essays, interviews, and other texts shape the architecture of a world haunted by the collapse of its own futurist promises.

Everything is Computer is presented as part of the cooperation between transmediale and Transgressive Memory Festival.