Tara McMullin

@taramcmullin

Writer, podcaster, and producer baffled by the absurdity of neoliberal capitalism. Autistic feminist. Aspiring independent scholar. Amateur baker. Host of the What Works podcast and author of a book of the same name.

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The concept of subjectivity is derived from the philosophy

of Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Delueze & Guattari, Butler,

and others. Two related concepts are at the core of this the-

ory: the notion of subject positions, which are social roles

that people are thrust into, and subjectivity, which is the felt

experience and creative agency of individ... See more
from Just a moment...
Philosophy
And if communities are spaces for belonging, cohorts are spaces for becoming.
from LF11 - Cohort Futures by Brian Dell
Community Design
challenges-15-00029-v2
The article critiques prevailing paradigms of digital literacy, proposing a consciousness model rooted in media ecology to address the structural biases of digital communication technologies that hinder sustainability efforts.
by Brian L. Ott
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Media & Culture
Anything that we playbook becomes more legible to AI.

So we must burn the playbooks .

This is the real Butlerian Jihad, not destroying the machines, but destroying the playbooks that would turn us into machines.
from Burn the Playbooks by Packy McCormick
Artificial Intelligence
If you’ve used all of your creative powers to come up with a cure for cancer and you want to follow a playbook for the FDA approval process, by all means, do that.

But it seems as if too often, people are going through the FDA approval process in hopes that it will lead them to the cure, metaphorically speaking.
from Burn the Playbooks by Packy McCormick
Disillusioned
Better design is warranted, but it is not enough if the goal is risk reduction. Risk reduction requires socialization, education, and enough agency to build experience. Moreover, if we think that people will still get hurt, we should be creating digital patrols who are there to pick people up when they are hurt.
from Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media by danah boyd
The Creator Economy and Media & Culture
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. One could put this another way: the publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her
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Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Book Covers Directory
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Design Inspo
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

— Albert Camus
from Tweet by Dylano | Essayful
The Mythical Norm
In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.
from The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke
The Mythical Norm

from Just a moment...

from LF11 - Cohort Futures by Brian Dell

challenges-15-00029-v2

from Burn the Playbooks by Packy McCormick

from Burn the Playbooks by Packy McCormick

from Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media by danah boyd

Book Covers Directory

from Tweet by Dylano | Essayful

from The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke