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[nathanjurgenson]

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speaking at Improving Reality 2014: Visibility Is a Trap today. i'll be doing a lightning round speeding through some of my thoughts on how we can use Foucault's famous declaration to examine the trappings of social media visibility. if you want to read more in-depth about what i'll say, here are some links:

on social media providing a "documentary vision", fixating the present as always a potential future past

and how temporary social media fights against this common, nostalgic gaze

on social media realizing Foucault's worry in The History Of Sexuality of making us too fixated on our identities, on our selves as selves, and rethinking social media away from the profile, and how visibility doesn't need to be just trapping, but also pleasurable 

on the idea of digital dualism, seeing the on and offline as separate 

[ollyjsmith]

Infrastructure is at least as old as agriculture, perhaps even older. It's not just a part of our lives as modern humans; it defines our lives – to the extent that you literally cannot conceive of a life without its support. It's our meta-technology: the technology that makes other technologies possible; the system of systems that extracts, processes, distributes and disposes of the resources that keep us alive. And yet we never talk about it, except to argue about cost or complain about inconvenience.

http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/sep/04/artist-engineer-infrastructure-means-matters