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Dude, Where’s My 22nd Century?

On the Burnout of Future-Images: How the mass phenomenon directly reflects the troubles of our cultural imagination. In his book The Image of the Future (1961), Dutch sociologist Fred. L. Polak (1907-1985) explains how the historical process of time – and along with it, speculations on the nature and meaning of time…

Dude, Where’s My
22nd Century?

Originally published in MARCH Journal of Art & Strategy.

An overlap has emerged between the experience of temporality in the contemporary condition of burnout, and time-flow in relation to social change. There is an intervention to be done. One that speculates on how these two apparently separate concepts have begun to converge, revealing potentially exciting qualities about one another. … →

 
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Full Automation, Full Fantasy

On Content Moderators and the Illusion of AI.

This article was originally published in Rosa Mercedes,
the online journal of the Harun Farocki Institut.

‘The panic attacks started after Chloe watched a man die. She spent the past three and a half weeks in training, trying to harden herself against the daily onslaught of disturbing posts: the hate speech, the violent attacks, the graphic pornography. In a few more days, she will become a full-time Facebook content moderator, or what the company she works for, a professional services vendor named Cognizant, opaquely calls a “process executive.” … →

 
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Internesia: The Techno-Persuasion To Forget

We begin recalling a story from something seen online only to realize midway through that the facts are hard to retreive...

Internesia:
The Techno-Persuasion
To Forget

Originally published in MARCH Journal of Art & Strategy.

We begin recalling a story from something seen online only to realize midway through that the facts are hard to retreive. Where did I see that quote? What was the name of that author? Where did I find this image again? Who was it that posted that tweet? How long ago was I on that page? The communication of a point evades coherent oral transmission and we side-step ‘I’m not doing it justice’ with a reference to a source that seems to have become unlocatable, having slipped away into the endless online ephemera of the lost unknown. … →