Kris Coffield
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Social Spectacle?
I agree that the traditional media's influence is waning. Social media is equally image-driven and simulacratic, though, and I think has to be incorporated into our modern understanding of how the spectacle is comprised. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram– ... -
Dissensual Media
This is an excellent dialogue in which we're engaged and I hope we can continue it once the theme week is over. I'm borrowing from Spivak's idea of "strategic essentialism," as you undoubtedly figured. I'm certainly not denyi ... -
Spectacular Paradox
You deftly highlight the normative paradox of today's spectacular society. On the one hand, the spectacle propounds consumerism and alienation. On the other, today's spectacular iterations, particularly via social media, can coalesce new forms o ... -
Aesthetic Choices
Excellent post. I have a friend who dabbles in nude drawing (life drawing) of "people of size" (a PC term he uses to describe himself) as a means of interrupting standard tropes about male beauty. He contends that trauma experienced because of h ... -
Aesthetic Identity
Very thought-provoking post, Paul. As a practitioner of object-oriented ontology, I think you're absolutely right to point out that OOO necessitates mereological thinking, something that gets lost in the sometimes rancorous debates about how OOO can ... -
Why Cats?
In a recent article in Wired magazine regarding kitteh memes, Gideon Lewis-Kraus informed readers that "when Google's secretive X Lab showed a string of 10 million YouTube images to a neural network of 16,000 computer processors for machine lear ... -
Procedural Rhetoric
Thanks for your post! While I don't follow Community (though it keeps coming up at IMR), I'm curious about the possibilities for directed application of 'disruptive textuality'. In the context you've described, the modality eventu ... -
Becoming-Minor
It's interesting to consider this post in light of the push against women's rights in American politics, exemplified most recently by Arizona's enactment of perhaps the most draconian anti-abortion law in the country (authored by a female l ... -
Structuration
Emanuelle picks up on a crucial point, I think. When considering the verisimilitude of political, or pehaps all, drama, we often discount the spatial dimension of our interpretation. I'd argue that local politics isn't just, or even necessarily, ... -
Parrhesia
I agree that TDS promotes both consensualization and pure ideological critique, the latter falling flat because it fails to account for the material conditions undergirding political positionality and potentiality. To recontextualize the discussion, I ...