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Use the Machine, Don’t Marry It
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Use the Machine, Don’t Marry It

All money is filthy. The question is not whether we touch it, but whether we let it rewire our process, our time, and our voice.


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An AOF editorial on platforms, hypocrisy, and building art that survives extraction.

1) The honest contradiction

We can’t live off-grid. Even this sentence will probably end up on a corporate server framed by ads, nudged by an algorithm that knows more about our habits than our closest friends. Posting this on Instagram or anywhere else is hypocritical if purity is the metric. But purity is the wrong metric. Survival is.

Why is Awen Null in Athens?
The Plaka Valyphos ZineGlitch poster. ©2026 Art of FACELESS

Why is Awen Null in Athens?

March 1st. St David's Day. Cardiff goes to Athens. While the rest of Wales is pinning Daffodils to their lapels and singing in the rain, we're doing something significantly weirder. The Hollow Circuit Book One — Official 2nd Edition — drops on Kindle. March 1st, 2026. From Athens. Specifically from somewhere in The Plaka. Maybe. Alt.Cardiff2026: ZINE GLITCH The new poster-format folding zine is here — bilingual, baby — English and Greek, because Alt.Cardiff2026 isn't staying in Alt.Cardiff


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