No title available
Cosmic Funnies
Not today Justin
todays bird
RMH
ojovivo
Love Begins
wallacepolsom
YOU ARE THE REASON
titsay
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
sheepfilms
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
⁂
JVL
@theartofmadeline
Product Placement
styofa doing anything
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from India
seen from Ukraine
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from Spain
seen from Germany
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from Ukraine
seen from France
seen from Germany
seen from Malaysia
seen from Türkiye
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
@slopunk-blog
Cookie Dough
I knew exactly what I was getting into with academia, yet having that understanding of what lay ahead does nothing. It provides no comfort. I can’t play the game, I feel disgusted with myself when I even try. Also, I want to preface by saying there wasn’t some kind of moment or crash-out that motivated me to write this. I was not spurned in any way, lmao. I think it’s just the passage of time and…
AI as Alchemy
Enchanted determinism is when a technological system is described in terms of the sublime. It is the myriad of issues that Campolo and Crawford note that problematize what is at stake, which is that enchanted determinism does not give way easily to a disenchanted scientific rationality. They write that in the enchanted world, where data is unreasonably effective at defying our disenchanted…
Can the Sub-Literate Speak?
December already? Stayed up all night revamping my blog site instead of getting more grading done for some reason. Old habits, same old motions. I kinda fuck with this design, the old one was a bit cringe looking back. Way too colourful and computery, looked like the concoction of a 13-year-old who thinks Panic at the Disco is edgy (perhaps not too different from the worst parts of myself). I…
Cyberpunk and Neuralink: The Body is Bad the Body's Not Good
Been playing Cyberpunk 2077 a lot recently, think I’ve put in around 30 hours in the span of 4 days. Look who’s really making the most of their graduate degree! One of my worst self-enabling habits is gaslighting myself that gaming and watching entertainment is actually a form of casual digital ethnography. This is nowhere near play, do not interpret it so, my time spent shooting Japanese cyborgs…
Fake Plastic Trees
Been feeling really Fake Plastic Trees lately, more than usual (whole life). Last year it was more The Smiths playing that role. And as 23-year-old who is only now getting into Radiohead, it’s funny to let it hit me the same way it would have on 14-year-old me. It’s like how you look at the lyrics of sad songs you listened to as a kid and realize that the lyrics to, à la She Will Be Loved sounded…
(Re)mediationatizations #3: Overuse of Techno-Feudalism
Morozov (2022) argues that the leftist analysis of techno-feudalism is an inaccurate characterization of capitalism: “The popularity of feudal-speak is a testament to intellectual weakness […] It is as if the left’s theoretical framework can no longer make sense of capitalism without mobilizing the moral language of corruption and perversion” (p.92). The appeal of feudalism is rhetorical rather…
(Re)mediationatizations #2: Post-Capitalism and the Role of Critical Theory
Second installment of the most popular short-form academic writing on the Web! #2’s writing is loosely based on reading Gibson-Graham’s (1996) Post-capitalist politics and David Harvey’s (1989) piece The Conditions of Postmodernity. It loses that focus after the second paragraph, which shows my truly inspiring ability to not stay on task. Also, the title is not an accurate reflection of what is…
(Re)mediationatizations #1: Digital Labor
I’m trying to figure out a new format for my blog posts. I’m really loving the convoluted abrasiveness of (Re)mediationatizations. If I can’t choose between remediation, mediation, and mediatization, I might as well choose all three. It’s hopefully a more bitesize academic version of my blogs, while hopefully not losing some of the more informal elements. I’m repurposing some old class discussion…
Probiotic-Blitzkrieg
When you will have made bacteria a biome without humans, then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom.
It is so shocking that in 2025, we still do not fully understand what war is. Israel Palestine, Ukraine Russia—shut up! Literally who cares. Your mind is a parochial place, the neanderthal twang in your nerves somehow dodged the evolutionary path. It is so obvious, so apparent, what war actually is. Wars are not about what country, what group, or what class is opposed to who. Every single war…
New Year New Me
I love the phrase “New Year New Me,” it has this undercurrent of understanding that this year will not actually feature a “new me,” the same me will make its reappearance, with a new veneer of hope that life’s trend is going upwards. And it has been going upwards, if that is any consolation. Last year began with me working on a casual side project, which was an Instagram account by the title of…
Decentralized Entertainment Control Mechanisms
Entertainment functions as a dispositif, having a discursive decentralized nature. This allows for its manifestation to be in media institutions, but also among individuals to produce/reproduce for themselves—the desires driving consumption. Deleuze’s (1992) Postscript on the Societies of Control distinguishes the new serpentine coils that arise in a post-disciplinary society. Foucault’s model…
Anastrophic Entertainment
[1] Modern schizophrenic entertainment, the most insidious growth, rhizomatic mold seeping through cracks taking any time it can get from those who use it. When we fuse entertainment’s acceleration with life, we are left with a process that cannot be receded. Alienated misery compounds consumption to horrific heights. And pain begets pain, summoning necessary amusement. Your entertainment…
Notes on Postscript on Societies of Control
Deleuze, G. (1992). Postscript on the Societies of Control. October, 59, 3–7. http://www.jstor.org/stable/778828 Postscript on the Societies of Control builds on the foundation Foucault lays out with the Disciplinary Society. Foucault’s model was one of a transient nature due to how the disciplinary succeeded out of the sovereign one. This transient nature is where Deleuze takes this concept…
Notes on Determinism: Turing, Eliza, and Kismet
1. Introduction Do I care more about the outcome of a task, or the one who brings it to life? Before publishing ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ (1950), Turing, two years prior, sought to publish ‘Intelligent Machinery (1948)’, exploring a different and arguably competing vision of creating machine intelligence. This different vision that ‘Intelligent Machinery’ put out compared to its…
The Publisher in the Age of Digital Reproduction
The role of the publishing industry in the age of digital reproduction through digital distribution finds itself in a volatile situation. Volatile in the sense that the traditional advantages and need for a publishing company become harder to justify, at least in regards to the role they play in the publishing process. But to say that the publisher in today’s contemporary age has no need or…
QOA: Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
Getting lazier and lazier, I’m sorry to all the fans and haters who did not get their weekly quote on time last Tuesday! I have fucked up royally. It seems I maybe have been overextending myself recently. So on that note of extension, this week focuses solely on McLuhan’s famous work Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man. The bolded titles to each quote are the chapter from which it is…
QOA: Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
Getting lazier and lazier, I’m sorry to all the fans and haters who did not get their weekly quote on time last Tuesday! I have fucked up royally. It seems I maybe have been overextending myself recently. So on that note of extension, this week focuses solely on McLuhan’s famous work Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man. The bolded titles to each quote are the chapter from which it is…