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Category Archives: General Features
Thinking About Trolls with Foucault
I was reading through Foucault’s Madness and Civilization this morning when I ran into this passage from the second-to-last section, “The Birth of the Asylum”: Madness is childhood. Everything at the Retreat [a specific asylum Foucault is analyzing] is organized so that … Continue reading
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Tagged madness and civilization, michel foucault, trolling
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On Deadword
Deadword‘s homepage reads: Launched in 1995, Word.com was one of the first-ever online magazines. In an era when the word “blog” hadn’t yet come into existence, Word captured individual voices telling honest, funny, weird, sad, and strange tales with a … Continue reading
Sara Wookey on Why She Refused To Be A Part of Marina Abramovic’s MOCA Performance
I am writing to address three main points: One, to add my voice to the discourse around this event as an artist who was critical of the experience and decided to walk away, a voice which I feel has been … Continue reading
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Tagged art, labor, marina abramovic, sara wookey
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Frantz Fanon on Ontology
As long as the black man remains in his home territory, except for petty internal quarrels, he will not have to experience his being for others. There is in fact a “being for other,” as described by Hegel, but any … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged black skin, frantz fanon, ontology, race, white masks
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Maureen Ryan on the Writing of Breaking Bad
This week is DiGRA so I’m blog-light, but I’m still reading things. So there is this great piece. “Breaking Bad” is an undoubtedly a great show, but, as is the case with too many television dramas, for while there it … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking bad, television, writing
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Sara Ahmed Starts Feminist Killjoys
Awesome scholar Sara Ahmed has started a research blog called feminist killjoys. She has a brilliant list of qualities to let you know if you could be interested in the blog: Are told you are angry no matter what you say Witness people’s … Continue reading
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Tagged feminism, feminist killjoys, sara ahmed, theory
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“It’s like Call of Duty”
The Defense Department has a secret state-of-the-art control center in Dubai with an IMAX-size screen at the front of the main room that can project video feed from dozens of drones at once. The Air Force has been directed to maintain capability … Continue reading
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Tagged call of duty, drones, video games, violence, war
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On Jenn Culp’s “Makeup Mondays”
This blog has variously, depending on my mood, been about comics, video games, and my various academic concerns, and most recently that has turned into my writing about art that I’ve cared about on the internet. For a quick recap, … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, art, jenn culp, makeup monday
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On Darius Kazemi’s “Scenes From The Wire”
Earlier today Darius Kazemi released his newest project which is a bot that makes animated GIFs from a video file and its paired subtitles. In its current form, the bot is working through S2E1 of The Wire and is located at the … Continue reading
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Ann Hirsch’s “Scandalishious”
This is the first thirty minutes of Ann Hirsch performance. She lived the life of a youtube “camwhore” (her words) for a significant amount of time, and I think this is the culmination of that work as a performance for … Continue reading
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Tagged ann hirsch, art, performance
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this cage is worms 