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computers can make up worlds and sometimes we believe they're real
Pierre Depaz, computer simulations as political manifestos
the same tech applied to different things is not the same tech
Pierre Depaz, Critiques protocolaires d'Internet: comparaison des projets IPFS et SecureScuttleButt
we can argue about something but technology does the thing (and makes the argument pointless)
Pierre Depaz, Discursive Strategies in Style Guides Negotiation on GitHub
programmers are like architects except they have nothing to refer to
Pierre Depaz, The craft of code
online political videos really work when you bring them offline
Pierre Depaz, Pauline Donizeau, L'agit-prop à l'ère 2.0: les campagnes du collectif Kazeboon dans l’Égypte en Révolution
Chinese tech companies portray machine vision through aesthetics that are terribly silly buy also visually consistent
Gabriele de Seta and Anya Shchetvina, Imagining machine vision: Four visual registers from the Chinese AI industry
it is nice to organise memories online, but internet is not an archive
Anya Shchetvina, The internet will not remember you: curation of autobiographical online materials in Russia in Spring 2022
memes help make sense of crisis events, and it is geographically more consistent than we might think
Andrea Marsili and Anya Shchetvina , Laugh in Case of Emergency: Framing the Pandemic Through Memes in Italy and Russia
spotify is doing to music what supermarkets did to food
David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Zhongwei Li, Critically Analyzing Platform Interfaces: How Music-Streaming Platforms Frame Musical Experience
When you say anything goes, it benefits the market
Frederic Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism