Authenticity in the age of GenAI
Drei Gedanken zu: Ladies First - Filmlöwin
Unter dem Deckmantel einer feministischen Komödie reproduziert die Netflix-Produktion LADIES FIRST patriarchale Ideologie.
About - personal canon
finding meaning in life through literature, art, design, and culture ✦✧ through weekly posts and enthusiastic conversations. Click to read personal canon, by Celine Nguyen, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
People, Not Posts - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Why do we still call it "social media"?
AI Safety Is a Narrative Problem · Special Issue 5: Grappling With the Generative AI Revolution
This op-ed explores power and narrative dynamics around AI. Drawing on pop-culture references, the professional experiences of the author and examples from 2023’s “Great AI Safety Hype Roadshow,” this piece draws on the literary criticism technique of practical criticism to consider how speeches and announcements from both Silicon Valley executives and research scientists to interrogate the media-friendly nature of p(doom) discourse—which focuses on the existential risks of AI (PauseAI, 2023)—and its likely consequences. The complexities of AI and its numerous social impacts can be difficult for even the most expert analyst to unpack. In spite of this, the potential of “existential threats” has successfully cut through to become a mainstay of mainstream media coverage over the last year. This piece will make the case that this is an effective narrative conceit that has achieved a number of ends that traditional science communication tends to find difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. Firstly, it is easy to understand. Simplification of this nature—that removes jargon and complexity and focuses on a single outcome—is much easier to fit on a TV rolling news ticker or on the cover of a tabloid newspaper than more well-balanced, representative opinions. Secondly, it inherits prior assumptions from well-known dramatic forms. P(doom) plays to stories familiar from Greek tragedy through to Marvel movies, in which lone male heroes battle ineluctable forces. Thirdly, it is imbued with urgency and so becomes difficult to ignore.
MAiD, ableism, cognitive accessibility, and more
This one took a bit to write. The first piece is long (1,600+ words), and intense. But it needed to be said. I'll be interested to hear what you think. You...
Home - Aiap
Dal 1945, insieme ai nostri soci, promuoviamo la cultura e la professionalità del design della comunicazione visiva.
The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet - Multi-hyphenate
Why every new "Art Community" fails. Equal parts eulogy, condemnation, and mourning.
Escaping the Calculating Machine
Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation.
Could Taylor Swift Have Written “F— the Patriarchy” a Decade Ago?
A history lesson behind the now-infamous keychain.
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movem…
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Er…
Lauren Tilton - Distant Viewing
dekopon
exploring fashion and art through craftsmanship, versatility, and longevity. cultivating a loving relationship between person and garment. contending with nostalgia for icons of consumerism.
