The Context Social media platforms bring about so many opportunities for enhanced global connection and access, and yet I often feel very passive on these platforms....
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Disney’s Struggle: Disclaimers and Diversity
For my last blog, I decided to direct my attention to an interesting current phenomenon: warnings and disclaimers. ‘Political correctness’ Over the last couple of years,...
Continue reading...E – poetry and its cyber branches
“I’m just a squirrel looking for a nut You are a wizard harry I’m a what Glad to believe in #Jesus, He’s the best… From Fresno...
Continue reading...Digital preservation is important!
When thinking of the term ‘preservation’, the first images in your mind are likely something related to the preservation of flora and fauna, or the preservation...
Continue reading...Caring of the Machines: Gender and Machines
This week’s blog post is a response to a comment left on my blogpost from last week; Fear of the Machines. Which mentioned another way in...
Continue reading...Connectivity in Death Stranding
Cloudy With a Chance of Brains
Waking up dead tired on a dreary Saturday morning is never fun, but even more so in November. The sky is grey and it never seems...
Continue reading...The experiencial video game: a digital avant-garde
The Art Canon and The Digital Era walk into a bar…
The digital era has brought forward an enormous change within society, a change of how we use tools, how we share and how we learn. It...
Continue reading...We are all cyborgs (video + blogpost)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9nRolGa42w The video titled ‘We Are All Cyborgs’ is a short introduction and artistic interpretation of Donna Haraway’s ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985). What is a cyborg you...
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Virtual love and affection
“OK, boomer” Vol. 2: Climate Change Kills
On my way to Leiden I witnessed a conversation that literally made the hairs in my neck stand up, much akin to a pissed off cat....
Continue reading...“OK boomer” Vol. 1: Pride Comes Before the Fall
The other day I went shopping in a garden centre. You know, one of those very large ones that require a map to navigate. Why I...
Continue reading...In Memory of r/Place
Whenever I hear the term ‘social experiment’ these days, my mind immediately goes to this awful trend of various internet personalities doing increasingly rude things to...
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Chinese science fiction, fiction or reality
Science fiction is one of my favourite genres at the moment, I enjoy anything from the casual Killjoy tv show to reading the books by Ursula...
Continue reading...Blue or Red Pill?: Baudrillard and The Matrix
In regards to last week’s discussion about podcasts, I decided to listen to one this morning. As I was waiting for the train I started listening...
Continue reading...The Immutability of Time
Two times a year, the clock changes. We either get an hour more or an hour less. We’re all so used to this that it doesn’t...
Continue reading...The Joker: a story of controversy
The Joker has come out around two weeks ago. I work at a movie theatre and believe me, it was pretty intense. The movie attracted a...
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