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September is like the Monday of the year.

August is over.

I’ve put together some links for you dear blog-readers.

This is the first research report from Digital Culture Research Studio, my independent research practice focused on internet culture and digital media.

wanted to watch films about the internet with others so i did something about it!!!

10 years after the fiery beginnings of western wokeism, i find myself asking whether or not there is a role for morality in the world (politics, undoubtedly - but for this specific post, i’m thinking about art and culture - this is what i know). ignited by

Hunting and gathering the nichest links for you. 🗣️ Shout out to the internet archive.

Both human and animal dignity is in crisis in 21st century’s fast-image-culture.

a book chapter i co-authored with a dear friend and multi-hyphenate pool of talent Eleni Maragkou is finally out. this project, called “Red Scare girlfriends: Language games with the Red Scare podcast or the ludic logic of online contrarianism”, was a deep

I really can’t escape clavicular. soon after i wrote my blogpost about why i think he is quite algorithmically popular (memetic descriptors help you become more visible in the algosphere), he spawned in the dimes square extended universe. so then, I had to

yaklaşık dört sene önce, şimdiki ismiyle x (eks), o zamanki ismiyle twitter’da meşhur monte sitesi bobiler’in kapanacağını okumuştum. aynı twitin içinde, sitenin sahipleri kendini bobi gibi hisseden herkesin montelerine sahip çıkmasını - yani sitenin görs…

Hunting and gathering the nichest links for you. 🗣️ Shout out to the internet archive.

a screenshot from vf, by way of the wayback machine (nov 2005). if you were an online emo kid, a goth adult, an industrial music fan (or a subcultural groomer) in the 2000s you may have come across a website called vampirefreaks dot com. in its most basic…

Where it all started: chromeheart600’s tweet set off many other people because of the hyperspecific looksmaxxing vernacular used in the post.

screenshot from jmail, discussing joi itoi - former director of MIT media lab The epstein files have been at the forefront of the internet the past few weeks. it’s also become a node for content creation. livestreamers, commentators, tiktokers, theorypill…

photo from the session, feb 1 transmediale is an important festival for new media art and the wider subcultural publics of the internet. this year's curators of the festival Neema Githere and Juan Pablo Garcia Sossa put together a program focusing on the…