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How We Ended Up in the Era of ‘Quantitative Aesthetics,’ Where Data Points Dictate Taste The Humanities Crash and the McNamara Fallacy in culture. _...Read More_
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"The lumbung interlokal and other forms of shaking the land."
"The lumbung interlokal and other forms of shaking the land."
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"Sometimes people are simply cool. You know what I mean: when you meet someone, only to be struck by a certain compelling energy, which is at once zeitgeist and timeless. What constitutes such a state is hard to pin down, but it might _...Read More_
"Sometimes people are simply cool. You know what I mean: when you meet someone, only to be struck by a certain compelling energy, which is at once zeitgeist and timeless. What constitutes such a state is hard to pin down, but it might _...Read More_
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>"Lil Tay was the foul-mouthed, ­preteen meme-machine who swept Instagram, or, as she likes to put it, the “youngest flexer of the century.” Lil Tay was the face and the attitude, but Jason Tian, her half-brother, is the genius behind _...Read More_
>"Lil Tay was the foul-mouthed, ­preteen meme-machine who swept Instagram, or, as she likes to put it, the “youngest flexer of the century.” Lil Tay was the face and the attitude, but Jason Tian, her half-brother, is the genius behind _...Read More_
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"AI-generated artwork is prompting hard questions about human creativity. The history of the photograph shows why the terms of the debate are wrong."
"AI-generated artwork is prompting hard questions about human creativity. The history of the photograph shows why the terms of the debate are wrong."
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>"The future of art, its accessibility, and its audience were explored at Christie’s Art+Tech Summit."
>"The future of art, its accessibility, and its audience were explored at Christie’s Art+Tech Summit."
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"From the orca uprising to the Titanic disaster and rising sea levels, ocean-related stories are feeding into internet folklore – but why?"
"From the orca uprising to the Titanic disaster and rising sea levels, ocean-related stories are feeding into internet folklore – but why?"
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"We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence."
"We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence."
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"Work injuries suffered on the factory line are rarely mentioned in academic accounts of trauma, whether from a literary or a historical point of view. In fact, industrial forms of working-class injury are largely ignored by the literature _...Read More_
"Work injuries suffered on the factory line are rarely mentioned in academic accounts of trauma, whether from a literary or a historical point of view. In fact, industrial forms of working-class injury are largely ignored by the literature _...Read More_
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"Seeping, oozing, metastasizing, Isabelle Andriessen’s bodily sculptures sit in an affective space between categories. They demand to be read through a combination of materials that resists stasis, as troubled and sticky agents in their own _...Read More_
"Seeping, oozing, metastasizing, Isabelle Andriessen’s bodily sculptures sit in an affective space between categories. They demand to be read through a combination of materials that resists stasis, as troubled and sticky agents in their own _...Read More_
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>"An interview with Charlotte Shane by Nell Whittaker, dressed by Plan C. Subjects include Charlotte's book Prostitute Laundry, sex work, writing, eternity, feminism and _...Read More_
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"Liberal democracy must show it can deliver for the constituencies of populism that would undermine it."
"Liberal democracy must show it can deliver for the constituencies of populism that would undermine it."
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"Though it is replete with check cashers, pawn shops and other “alternative lenders” profiting off the fact that poor communities of color generally have difficulty accessing their own money, the Bronx was already severely underbanked _...Read More_
"Though it is replete with check cashers, pawn shops and other “alternative lenders” profiting off the fact that poor communities of color generally have difficulty accessing their own money, the Bronx was already severely underbanked _...Read More_
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>"If the metaverse is speculative fiction, we must dare to be imaginative and inclusive."
>"If the metaverse is speculative fiction, we must dare to be imaginative and inclusive."