wanted to watch films about the internet with others so i did something about it!!! i am part of a co-op called ‘post-office’ operating out of hoofdweg 403, amsterdam. as a member, i get the opportunity to use the space to organise events (among other things). my idea was to set up a screening programme showing films about the internet. i set up an open call, so anyone who wanted to could show…
10 years after the fiery beginnings of western wokeism, i find myself asking whether or not there is a role for morality in the world (politics, undoubtedly - but for this specific post, i’m thinking about art and culture - this is what i know). ignited by the promises of a more understanding, a more empathetic world where people would maybe think twice about calling you a feminist killjoy or use…
Hunting and gathering the nichest links for you. 🗣️ Shout out to the internet archive. Audiovisual Windows Media Player visualizations Music River Master – The Angler's Dream Vinyl Rip Text AI Doomerism Is a Decoy Screenshot Post card showing an illustration of a stairway to heaven with the text "Good girls go to heaven - Bad girls hack themselves in". Uploaded to the Internet Archive in 2023 by…
Both human and animal dignity is in crisis in 21st century’s fast-image-culture. Images of atrocities, genocide and war are ready for consumption at a moments’ notice as “we are bombarded by images”. Pain is an easy node for digital attention, like outrage and shock. Clicks and scrolls amplify the representation of one’s pain in the circulatory system of the internet. Is your pain lessened by the…
a book chapter i co-authored with a dear friend and multi-hyphenate pool of talent Eleni Maragkou is finally out. this project, called “ Red Scare girlfriends: Language games with the Red Scare podcast or the ludic logic of online contrarianism ”, was a deep dive into the subcultural ironics of a dark corner of the womanosphere: the red scare podcast. in the paper, we look at pinterest and reddit…
I really can’t escape clavicular. soon after i wrote my blogpost about why i think he is quite algorithmically popular (memetic descriptors help you become more visible in the algosphere), he spawned in the dimes square extended universe. so then, I had to look . I follow dimes square content on twitter/x the way that some of my friends follow the housewives franchise on streaming services. if you…
yaklaşık dört sene önce, şimdiki ismiyle x (eks), o zamanki ismiyle twitter’da meşhur monte sitesi bobiler’in kapanacağını okumuştum. aynı twitin içinde, sitenin sahipleri kendini bobi gibi hisseden herkesin montelerine sahip çıkmasını - yani sitenin görsel hafızasını arşivlemelerini - öneriyordu: “ey ahali! montenize sahip çıkmazsanız, montesiz kalacaksınız! internet’in o haşmetli, balinamsı…
Hunting and gathering the nichest links for you. 🗣️ Shout out to the internet archive. Audiovisual ‘All your base are belong to us’ hardstyle edition (click screen to play when ‘ruffle’ loads) warning flashing images Music [SUBSIDE 004] Megamix Album (Koplo Goes to Breakcore) fav tracks: bojo loro, SMS Text Cheats and Sneaks: A Conversation with Marina Kittaka Screenshot A screenshot from the…
a screenshot from vf, by way of the wayback machine (nov 2005). if you were an online emo kid, a goth adult, an industrial music fan (or a subcultural groomer) in the 2000s you may have come across a website called vampirefreaks dot com . in its most basic conception, this was a social networking website for (western, english-language) goth, emo and industrial subcultures. it is now been whittled…
Where it all started: chromeheart600’s tweet set off many other people because of the hyperspecific looksmaxxing vernacular used in the post. @chromeheart600 posts > @jaubreyYT commentates > @taylorlorenz3.0 takes a screenshot and re-posts on IG > I screenshot it and put it in my blogpost taylor lorenz’s shitposting instagram is a fair reflection of what is happening in the usamerican memetic…
screenshot from jmail, discussing joi itoi - former director of MIT media lab The epstein files have been at the forefront of the internet the past few weeks. it’s also become a node for content creation. livestreamers, commentators, tiktokers, theorypilled nihilinstagrammers, traditional newspapers, untraditional newspapers, tabloids, substacks. his crimes and the severity of his social network…
photo from the session, feb 1 transmediale is an important festival for new media art and the wider subcultural publics of the internet. this year's curators of the festival Neema Githere and Juan Pablo Garcia Sossa put together a program focusing on the "metaphorical coordinates By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road . " The programme website describes the logic of the theme as "a living recursive…