It's What's Inside That Counts: Rendering The Visceral Internet
(A Review of "I Was Raised On The Internet," Museum of Contemporary Art") There is probably an irony to be located somewhere within the...
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Digital Media and the Human Condition
As this is my final blog post in the final week of class, I feel like it is appropriate to think on the class as a whole. During our...
A Mediated Media Experience, A Review of I Was Raised on the Internet
Apologies, classmates, I forgot to post my review of the MCA's I Was Raised on the Internet. My review below! The Museum of Contemporary...
Accidentally Dining with the Vectoral Class
Last week I was invited to an investment strategy event hosted by an emerging startup company called VestedWorld, a traditional venture...
Wark and Morgan Stanley
For the last blog post, I thought it would be appropriate to reach back to what I found to be one of the most interesting texts we read...
Freerice.com and Digitally Distancing Ourselves
I remember in junior high and high school, one of the options that our teachers often used to pacify students when we had finished our...
Sleep Dealer's Dystopic Finale
In class, I mentioned that the future that Sleep Dealer may be gesturing towards is one in which Mexico is liberated from America’s...
Some Ultimately Irrelevant Musings on Freelance Labor as an Undergrad
For money, I shelved books in college. Occasionally, patrons would approach me with questions, and I’d respond with something muttered or...
The Newness of the Past
I was very struck by an idea that came up in class this week: the newness, or strangeness, of the past. As someone who recently opted...
Disembodied Automation: The Invisibility of Labor in Digital Economies
Automation has become a new battleground for the physical body. I found myself in the ethical dilemma when checking out at Walmart just...
Futurity/Futurism
I have leftover questions about Marez’s concept of futurity, as opposed to futurism, in the introduction we read of Farm Worker Futurism....
The next 11 years
There is no question that corporate-controlled technologies are an already alive dystopia for workers across classes, races and...
Imagining Nuclear Futures
A recent post by kamelia, entitled "Our Nuclear Future" (link here: https://uofcmediastudies.wixsite.com/dmt2018/blog/our-nuclear-future)...
Party like a Rockstar?
Although this week’s topics were generally depressing, there was one thing we discussed shortly that really caught my attention- the...
The Heaviness of Being (a Victim)
”The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of the poorest countries on earth (second-to-last on the United Nations’ Human Development...
Our Nuclear Future
Since this week has been about generally depressing topics such as the exploitation of labor and how our technology is harming if not...
Political Vision and Affect in Science Fiction
By no stretch of the imagination am I a scholar of science fiction, but I've long been interested in the thematic of dystopia that tends...
Are hackers cool?
During yesterday’s conversation people kept asking about why we use the term “hacker” instead of “programmer.” This idea got me thinking...
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Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer envisions the American Dream at its nightmarish (though by no means unimaginable) extreme—as one character...
Modding as Critical Making
A lot of what we read this week had me thinking about modding games and how game mods can be critical making. At what point do these mods...
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