It’s that special time when the old links of the year become new again. Here’s one worth revisiting: a free-to-download edition of the art section of Cuba’s “offline internet,” El Paquete Semanal.https://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/jan/29/the-download-7-in-person-file-sharing/ …
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Possibly a less good year for actual seasteaders. Here is
@BrendanCByrne; French Polynesia cut ties with the initiative discussed here not long after this was published:http://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/jan/31/seasteading/ …Show this thread -
The arrival of another dubious future was marked by
@cnqmdi, who wrote about GAN-made artworks, which were more or less copied and sold at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars, all of this is fine.https://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/apr/18/blobs-of-flesh-categorized-as-human/ …Show this thread -
The term “zamboni formalism” (for excessively automated art-making) is among the notable critical achievements of that last piece.
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It was a year when a lot of people argued about Facebook, but the political stakes of the debate were rarely so clear as in this panel with Madonna Thunder Hawk, Marcella Gilbert, & Elizabeth Castle:https://vimeo.com/276931635
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From the same conference, Jarrett Drake & Stacie Williams got real about the emotional labor involved in setting up an archive of police violence in Cleveland: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/aug/27/building-a-community-archive-of-police-violence/ …
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“It was just people being mad on the internet together.” -
@jmddrake on the origins of the People’s Archive of Police Violence, in that last linkShow this thread
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