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An inspiration engine for ideas
an effort to manage the virtuality of both sex and publicness.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
norms are often rooted in the history of pop-culture genres and fan cultures:
Limor Shifman • Memes in Digital Culture (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
One reason Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts has been so popular, and that other works of autotheory including Cvetkovich’s book Depression: A Public Feeling have been so powerful, is that they are vulnerable books, divulging very personal details in ways that are neither confessional nor egoistic, but are instead an offering to readers: here is mine.
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A virtual intimacy does not, after all, collapse all desires or encounters that are not socially sanctioned into a sort of abyss; rather, it actualizes some intimacies as more or less desirable and dangerous than others.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
For many artists, art plays a unique and crucial role in working out “what … we might want when we’re not under surveillance,” as Adam Phillips has said of psychoanalysis.
Maggie Nelson • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
“Instead of asking whether anyone should be locked up or go free, why don’t we think about why we solve problems by repeating the kind of behavior that brought us the problem in the first place?” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore
adrienne maree brown • We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series Book 3)
While this shift has lowered many cultural barriers to entry, since anyone can make their work public online, it has also resulted in a kind of tyranny of real-time data.