Xavier Hubert Brierre's mirror interventions in Gabon
Marshall McLuhan on "our own image" and technologies of the self "numbing" elements of the self -- in other contexts he used the term "amputation, as in, "every prosthesis requires an amputation."
This clip is from a full documentary on McLhuan titled "McLuhan's Wake" that you can watch HERE. I should note that it's essentially the same thing with MM's work as Guy Debourd's Society of The Spectacle
Gregory Bateson's Blind Man's Cane. Cited in the Losh reading, and helpful in thinking about tech as an extension (or replacement?) of the body.
#STOPANIMALSELFIES
"By looking directly into his phone, hitting record and speaking the truth, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was able to counter the lies about his country told by Vladimir Putin."
-- Robert Macky, The Intercept
John Berger's Ways of Seeing. Cited in the Losh reading, but firsthand here.
This idea is basically the "male gaze" in a slightly more specified context, and less Freudian than Laura Mulvey, who coined the term, intended.
Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Still #11
Be-Real (sure everyone knows about it but I found out just yesterday)
Lev Manovich on Selfiicity
visualization parsing interface for Selfiecity. You can still play around with it HERE...
...and he actually wrote a whole book on the analysis called: Instagram and The Contemporary Image, available HERE as a free PDF
Here's a link to the Purdue Owl MLA formatting resource
Here's the quick version:
Here's a link to a google docs MLA template
Here's a link toEasybib.You probably know about this, but it's a service for correctly formatting citations. It generally works, and I see no reason not to use it (or any of the many alternatives), unless you're going into library sciences and feel the need to memorize all that proper syntax.
Here's a link to the CalArts Writing Center Appointment Page.Getting A Move On With Words On The Page:
"Close distance," as Elizabeth Losh writes, "refers to the orientation of the selfie subject in presenting foreground/bacground relationships to an implied audience" (7).Don't need the author's name here because I've introduced that within the quote.
Or...
Here we see that "[c]entralization of data is extremely important in the staging of social control" (Rule 3).Author Name (no comma) pp# - JUST THE NUMBER, no "pp" or "pg").
*the punctuation (, or ; or . but not ? or !) moves from inside the " to outside the ).
Here's a link to a google docs MLA template
Here's a link toEasybib.You probably know about this, but it's a service for correctly formatting citations. It generally works, and I see no reason not to use it (or any of the many alternatives), unless you're going into library sciences and feel the need to memorize all that proper syntax.
Here's a link to the CalArts Writing Center Appointment Page.
Getting A Move On With Words On The Page:
- Ask yourself a few questions, and answer them in writing:
- Why did I pick this topic? Why is it captivating? Why is it relevant?
- What theories and concepts from class/lecture/readingSurveillance, Sousveillance, Intimacy, Aesthetic Morality, Social Normativity, Societal Control, Race/Gender/Class + Biases in Surveillance Tech, Data Rights and Privacy, Intellectual Property, Military-Carceral Complex, Self-Quantification... most obviously tie in?
- Not just WHICH theories and concepts tie in, but WHY do they tie in? Are you making a big conceptual leap in order to connect your topic and this classNot necessarily a bad thing. Some of the most interesting papers draw unexpected conclusions that are difficult to grasp, but it's good to know up front., or is your topic inextricable from our readings/discussions? Either way, why-why-why?If you know why you picked the topic -- why you're attracted to the topic -- and you've brainstormed the themes present within the topic, and you know what we've discussed in class, than the first thing that comes to mind here is likely to be the best answer.
- This is where I would start writing paragraphs (usually not the introduction),Usually I'd start with the idea I was most excited about, which would probably relate in some way to my thesis, but it's all up to you!, however, I know a lot of folks have different processes. All of this info might fit nicely into a "map"lay it all out, think of it as a hypertext, or a cloud, or a soup --> start drawing lines, connecting dots, seasoning to your tastes. Take everything that's been "coming at you" and make it YOURS. of some kind.
- Why did I pick this topic? Why is it captivating? Why is it relevant?
- What theories and concepts from class/lecture/readingSurveillance, Sousveillance, Intimacy, Aesthetic Morality, Social Normativity, Societal Control, Race/Gender/Class + Biases in Surveillance Tech, Data Rights and Privacy, Intellectual Property, Military-Carceral Complex, Self-Quantification... most obviously tie in?
- Not just WHICH theories and concepts tie in, but WHY do they tie in? Are you making a big conceptual leap in order to connect your topic and this classNot necessarily a bad thing. Some of the most interesting papers draw unexpected conclusions that are difficult to grasp, but it's good to know up front., or is your topic inextricable from our readings/discussions? Either way, why-why-why?If you know why you picked the topic -- why you're attracted to the topic -- and you've brainstormed the themes present within the topic, and you know what we've discussed in class, than the first thing that comes to mind here is likely to be the best answer.
- This is where I would start writing paragraphs (usually not the introduction),Usually I'd start with the idea I was most excited about, which would probably relate in some way to my thesis, but it's all up to you!, however, I know a lot of folks have different processes. All of this info might fit nicely into a "map"lay it all out, think of it as a hypertext, or a cloud, or a soup --> start drawing lines, connecting dots, seasoning to your tastes. Take everything that's been "coming at you" and make it YOURS. of some kind.