To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, Mar#65533;a Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical… Continue reading Matters of Care : Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds
Category: Theory
A (very good) Brief History of Computer Games Graphics
From naïve origins to the rise of cinematic realism: an account of graphical milestones in video games.
Pluriverse
Pluriverse A Post-Development Dictionary Edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta Tulika Books Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary contains over one hundred essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values. It offers critical… Continue reading Pluriverse
Audre Lorde
1934–1992 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia. Lorde was born in New York City to West Indian immigrant parents. She attended Catholic schools before graduating from Hunter High School and published her… Continue reading Audre Lorde
SonicActs: AI as an Act of Thought — Dr. Ramon Amaro
An increasingly large proportion of human reality is now lived through algorithms. While our relationship with AI is undoubtedly important as a mode of knowledge production, it has far-reaching implications. Most significant is the disparity between the act of existing/existence – particularly as it relates to differential human states of being (race, gender, sexuality, etc.)… Continue reading SonicActs: AI as an Act of Thought — Dr. Ramon Amaro
Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire’s work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe,… Continue reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire
Design Justice | Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need — Sasha Costanza-Chock
Design Justice Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need By Sasha Costanza-Chock – https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/design-justice An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. Summary An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and… Continue reading Design Justice | Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need — Sasha Costanza-Chock
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code — Ruha Benjamin
https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while… Continue reading Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code — Ruha Benjamin
Dialectic of Pop
In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agnès Gayraud explores all the paradoxes of pop—its inauthentic authenticity, its mass production of emotion and personal resonance, its repetitive novelty, its precision engineering of seduction—and calls for pop (in its broadest sense, encompassing all genres of popular recorded music) to be recognised as a modern… Continue reading Dialectic of Pop
Freud’s Method for Interpreting Dreams
extract from: https://www.freud.org.uk/learn/discover-psychoanalysis/the-interpretation-of-dreams/freuds-method-for-interpreting-dreams/ Freud was careful to distance his method of dream interpretation from popular methods. Dreams do have meanings The science of Freud’s time regarded dreams as meaningless. The theory that dreams are just random by-products of the brain’s functioning during REM sleep is still maintained by some scientists today. It is also the theory… Continue reading Freud’s Method for Interpreting Dreams