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Feb. 5th, 2015 12:57 pmThursday linkspam:
Henry Jenkins, Affective Publics and Social Media, An Interview with Zizi Papacharissi (Part Three): "Affect theory suggests that refrains, among other conversational signifiers, can be employed to convey a sense of movement toward a certain, albeit-not-yet-determined because-it-is-in-the-making, direction. So you want to think of retweets as a variation of refrains, and in the book, I explained how retweeting in #egypt gave the resulting news stream about the movement a rhythmicality that sustained an always on, ambient online presence for the movement. And during escalating events, retweeting that employed the refrain of revolution or affirmed the revolutionary theme of the movement further amplified intensity and harmonized affective energies in a manner that reflexively and discursively claimed the revolutionary outcome, well before regime reversal had occurred."
Claire L. Evans, We Are The Future Cunt: "Revisiting CyberFeminism in 2014 is a joy. For one, it’s fun. The language is dynamite. There just aren't many feminists on the web curretly writing manifestos that include phrases like 'the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix' or 'we are the future cunt'—both memorable lines from VNS Matrix’s Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century—at least not on the blogs I’m reading. And the enthusiasm for the nascent possibilities of the web is palpable, even contagious."
Johann Hari, Two Biographies of Ayn Rand: "We all become weak at some point in our lives, so a thinker who despises weakness will end up despising herself."
Henry Jenkins, Affective Publics and Social Media, An Interview with Zizi Papacharissi (Part Three): "Affect theory suggests that refrains, among other conversational signifiers, can be employed to convey a sense of movement toward a certain, albeit-not-yet-determined because-it-is-in-the-making, direction. So you want to think of retweets as a variation of refrains, and in the book, I explained how retweeting in #egypt gave the resulting news stream about the movement a rhythmicality that sustained an always on, ambient online presence for the movement. And during escalating events, retweeting that employed the refrain of revolution or affirmed the revolutionary theme of the movement further amplified intensity and harmonized affective energies in a manner that reflexively and discursively claimed the revolutionary outcome, well before regime reversal had occurred."
Claire L. Evans, We Are The Future Cunt: "Revisiting CyberFeminism in 2014 is a joy. For one, it’s fun. The language is dynamite. There just aren't many feminists on the web curretly writing manifestos that include phrases like 'the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix' or 'we are the future cunt'—both memorable lines from VNS Matrix’s Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century—at least not on the blogs I’m reading. And the enthusiasm for the nascent possibilities of the web is palpable, even contagious."
Johann Hari, Two Biographies of Ayn Rand: "We all become weak at some point in our lives, so a thinker who despises weakness will end up despising herself."