weirdlandtv:

Know your horns!

(From Keith and Clothilde Sutton’s Pictorial Dictionary.)

therealmotzaball:

therealmotzaball:

Here is why NFTs are harmful and bad for the environment

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I knew NFT were stupid and just a dumb way to gamble but holy shit the amount of energy they use to simply create and track these things is disgusting

DON’T buy cryptoart

Leave a disclaimer on your art that states that “This is NOT for NFT sale”

designobjectory:

1964, lounge chair “locus solus” by gae aulenti

threeheaded:

the age of social media: a reading list

note: all hyperlinked texts are either open-access academic works or public-facing articles, & most other texts are accessible through various pdf-hosting websites.

books

• the age of surveillance capitalism by shoshanna zuboff (2019)
• the burnout society by byung-chul han, tr. erik butler (2015)
• control: digitality as cultural logic by seb franklin (2015)
• dark matters: on the surveillance of blackness by simone browne (2015)
• the death algorithm and other digital dilemmas by roberto simanowski, tr. jefferson chase (2018)
• the end of forgetting: growing up with social media by kate eichhorn (2019)
• in the swarm: digital politics by byung-chul han, tr. erik butler (2012)
• the politics of dating apps: gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in urban china by lik sam chan (2021)
• the transparency society by byung-chul han, tr. erik butler (2015)
• weaving the dark web: legitimacy on freenet, tor, and i2p by robert gehl (2018)

articles

• ambivalent influencers: feeling rules and the affective practice of anxiety in social media influencer work by mari lehto (2021)
• capitalism, patriarchy, slavery, and racism in the age of digital capitalism and digital labour by christian fuchs (2017)
• children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives by rob horning (2010)
• #dadtribe: performing sharenting labour to commercialise involved fatherhood by mario campana, astrid van den bossche, and bryoney miller (2020)
• disintegrated bodies from cyborg microcelebrities to capital flow: a post-phenomenological investigation of disembodiment by riad salameh (2021)
• the drama of metrics: status, spectacle, and resistance among youtube drama creators by angèle christin and rebecca lewis (2021)
• #familygoals: family influencers, calibrated amateurism, and justifying young digital labor by crystal abidin (2017)
• fragments on microcelebrity by rob horning (2012)
• imagined affordances of instagram and the fantastical authenticity of female gulf-arab social media influencers by zoe hurley (2019)
• improbable curators: analysing nostalgia, authorship and audience on tumblr microblogs by dinu gabriel munteanu (2017)
• instagram use, instamums, and anxiety in mothers of young children by mara moujaes and diarmuid verrier (2020)
• micro­microcelebrity: branding babies on the internet by crystal abidin (2015)
• power through the algorithm? participatory web cultures and the technological unconscious by david beer (2009)
• “running the numbers”: modes of microcelebrity labor in queer women’s self-representation on instagram and vine by stefanie duguay (2019)
• selling brands while staying “authentic”: the professionalization of instagram influencers by loes van driel, delia dumitrica (2020)
• seo and the disappearing self by rob horning (2010)
• social media as masochism by rob horning (2016)
• social media is not self-expression by rob horning (2012)
• speaking to no one by rob horning (2017)
• verbal venting in the social web: effects of anonymity and group norms on aggressive language use in online comments by leonie rösner and nicole c. krämer (2016)
• vlogging parlance by sophie bishop (2018)