Acknowledging far right discourse as “legitimate concerns” has massively expanded its ranks. Racism and xenophobia thrives where people are poor and frustrated. Material support and radical challenge is only way to eliminate it. Unions can do this.
Joe Mulhall #UCUEqualities
Midjourney-generated images, prompt was: workers in a factory, highly realistic --ar 4:3
With each update, tools like Midjourney promise us more »realistic« representations – but the »reality« these images represent has often little to do with the one we live in. Rather, they are best described as »Platform Realism,« a second-order aesthetic of generic images. A thread ...
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Would love to be added here! Researcher interested in the online visual culture emerging from the "post-truth" era. Teaching media art.
Still looking for additions and suggestions (also, please include yourself if you think the description fits) go.bsky.app/LmudiJF
Keen to be added to this one! :)
I argued that January 6 demonstrated a "rupture into the real" from politics that ostensibly only made sense online. I suspect, in hindsight, it also demonstrated the limits of ironic detachment and plausible deniability in online extremism. The fringe has now shifted into the mainstream. 2/2
Here's a piece I wrote, published earlier this year on Do Not Research. It's worth thinking about in light of the second Trump administration; the nature of Trumpism has evolved significantly in the last eight years. 1/2
donotresearch.substack.com/p/paul-suthe...
And at #AAANZ24, I talked about corecore, AI slop and how the digital mediation of the lifeworld enables a disposition of suspicion!
At #APSA24, I presented my research into the phenomenology of the red pill and the search for ontological security in the post-truth era.
Conferences wrapped up! #APSA24 and #AAANZ24 Online in the same week!
