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Posts By: Michael Mackenzie

COMMENTS / Declaration of Love / Campaign of Hate: an exhibition of text drawings and paintings that explore the commodification of validation and division in online comment sections in China

By Michael Mackenzie, July 1, 2024

Comment sections on social media platforms have evolved from a tool to respond to an online post, into ‘third spaces’, meaning they have become social spaces where we connect that are neither home nor work. They can, at times, be volatile due to the nature of communicating behind a screen as opposed to IRL. Much [...]

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By Michael Mackenzie, March 28, 2023

“Naturally, a major consequence of this view is the crisis of desire and the potential entry into a realm of perversion where enjoyment is no longer marked by the experience of the limit. Once castration is suspended, ‘desire’ ceases to be a key manifestation of the subject of the unconscious, and faces something akin to [...]

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