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back to the future
(t) Flor, Male and Sil, 1983 & 2010, London; (b) Daphne, 1986 & 2011, Paris Is there a name for these images? These then-and-now diptychs in which people arrange themselves into the gestures,...
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after the ecopalypse: cyborg plants
People like to wring their hands at the thought of the near future—you know, after the imminent ecopalypse. Directors similarly love to make dystopian films about it; think ruin porn taken to a new...
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anarchists care about brand-identity
A panda costume, green lasers, social media manifestos. The places where one finds Anarchism in this day and age are startling. One might expect such over-determined capitalist colonizing in the form...
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tugging on the bot threads
via securitynet.org For certain people, it is necessary to maintain the “compulsory individual” set of accounts: the website with the requisite CV and photo, the Twitter account in @fullrealname...
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social media shministim
Last night, I was surprised to come across a pretty problematic term in an otherwise thoughtful blogpost from Nathan Jurgenson, “Refusing the Refusenicks.” In it, he summates and critiques Laura...
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social media war-machine
Certainly, an amount of surprise at the Israeli Defense Forces social media onslaught in the latest assault on Gaza is to be expected. The internet and its various platforms are for many of us a safe...
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theorizing the web, irl
Two weekends ago, I was lucky enough to take part in the third annual Theorizing the Web Conference. You can watch my presentation here. (It begins at 57:28, but I would recommend watching the whole...
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comfort vlog: the lizzie bennett diaries and the taming of digital media
Spoiler alert: the following article discusses plot points from both Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and the Lizzie Bennett Diaries by Hank Green and Bernie Su. It is a truth universally...
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dancing, technology, and the plague: cure
Dance dance, dance, still, dance, dance—repeat x 10 Cue the sounds of hundreds of feet dancing. Frau Troffea may have started the Dance Epidemic of 1518, but it was the authorities who hired a band...
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what 16 billion dollars looks like from 30 dollars a month
When you are short of money, the mobile app ecosystem looks very different from the images of endless choice conveyed in tech blogs. If you had a lot of money and time, you could be the early-adopter...
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