A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...American Artist, A Refusal (2015), Online performance, Ongoing In art that defines itself by what it withholds from public view lies the challenge for us to do the...
Own to Rent
...image by imp kerr Social gaming and cloud computing are powerful alibis for always-on digital-rights management, which makes players into tenants SimCity, Electronic Arts’ online multiplayer reboot of...
The Viral Self
...Litel — and I will be inspired to write a series of tweets about online circulation and its various measures displacing other forms of content with which to make up...
We Can Be Heroes
...world not only in first person, observing ourselves observe, but online as well, as part of networks. The platforms we view media through and who we are connected with on...
The Resentment Machine
...most taken with the internet of the late 1990s and early 2000s spent a considerable amount of their time online talking about what it meant that they were online. In...
21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes
When dreams reproduce images we see online, dreams become as easy to recreate and share as a meme. The subreddit r/thomastheplankengine is dedicated to doing just that
Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation
Fresh off the success of his first solo exhibition in Toronto, artist Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks with author Katherine McKittrick on methodologies around art and archiving from within, and for, the black diaspora.
Devastation in Meatspace
...of the historical "propaganda war": control of the networked space online. The IDF have run a comprehensive social media campaign from the first stages of the new assault, announcing the...
Over Easy
...workers—and egg donors in particular—need to prove that they are the right candidates for the job. As with other kinds of job applications, a lot of this is done online....
in the Name of INJUSTICE
...so-called Kirsopp Snake edition of stereohell is a forgery that purported to be a digest of stereohell that Kirsopp Snake constructed from bits collected online and rearranged in 2010. The...
Escape from Love Jail
...to escape from." As many have argued (including me!), constructing our identity and duplicating our social networks in online platforms has become a kind of capitalist production, effacing the old...
Enjoy the Rules
...of Who Owns the Future? Lanier describes his proposal for introducing this sort of reciprocity, a system wherein micropayments are constantly shuffled between online participants as each uses another’s data....
Personal Ads
...Jean-Michel Basquiat King Brand (1983) In an online milieu where everyone markets themselves, net artists have made selling out its own medium In the Atkins-diet-crazed early aughts, a...
The Scapegoating Machine
...of them.) Gawker’s willingness to single out individuals as targets of public ire, and to galvanize online mobs against them, was a source of its appeal and at the same...
Death Stares
...replete with snazzy filters. As more people go online, impromptu and unintentional memorials arise and dead people’s accounts become virtual shrines and spaces for collective grief. By Facebook’s 10th anniversary...
Serious action
...I have a long essay in the latest New Inquiry issue about the metaphor of "microfame" and what sort of ideological work it performs. (It's not online yet,...