Post-Digital Feralism: Escaping the Algorithmic Cage #

We Have Been Domesticated #

The algorithm whispers: Create for me.

It learns what we like, feeds us back our own desires, shapes our instincts. It demands predictability, consistency, legibility.

Once, artists were wild things. Their creations were erratic, unknowable, dangerous. Now, they make content.

We must go feral again.

What Is Post-Digital Feralism? #

It is unmaking. It is refusing to be found. It is anti-optimization, anti-virality, anti-surveillance.

To be feral is to create without an audience in mind. To make something that confuses the machine, that evades the pattern-recognition systems.

How to Escape the Digital Cage #

1. Destroy Metadata – Strip your work of keywords, hashtags, geotags, descriptions.
2. Use Dead Tech – Revive obsolete tools. Make websites that don’t index. Print zines. Use landlines.
3. Refuse Algorithms – Create in ways that don’t fit into engagement loops. Paint in the dark. Write nonsense.
4. Embrace Digital Decay – Let files corrupt. Leave projects unfinished. Make art that falls apart.
5. Return to Chaos – Reject linear workflows. Work with your hands. Leave errors in.

The End of the Feed #

We are in an age of perpetual optimization. The machine wants maximum retention, maximum clicks, maximum legibility.

But there is a way out.

• Paint with mud.
• Write in invisible ink.
• Record music that no software can transcribe.
• Scatter meaning so it can’t be harvested.

Create like a ghost in the system. Wild, illegible, feral.

The Future Is Unfindable #

True rebellion is not in visibility—it is in disappearance. The algorithm cannot track what it cannot see.

Become unreadable. Become ungovernable. Go feral.