Paul Sutherland

Acknowledging far right discourse as “legitimate concerns” has massively expanded its ranks. Racism and xenophobia thrives where people are poor and frustrated. Material support and radical challenge is only way to eliminate it. Unions can do this.

Joe Mulhall #UCUEqualities

29.11.2024 11:35 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Midjourney-generated images, prompt was: workers in a factory, highly realistic --ar 4:3

With each update, tools like Midjourney promise us more »realistic« representations – but the »reality« these images represent has often little to do with the one we live in. Rather, they are best described as »Platform Realism,« a second-order aesthetic of generic images. A thread ...
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20.08.2023 10:00 — 👍 362    🔁 124    💬 5    📌 38

Would love to be added here! Researcher interested in the online visual culture emerging from the "post-truth" era. Teaching media art.

29.11.2024 07:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Still looking for additions and suggestions (also, please include yourself if you think the description fits) go.bsky.app/LmudiJF

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Keen to be added to this one! :)

29.11.2024 07:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I argued that January 6 demonstrated a "rupture into the real" from politics that ostensibly only made sense online. I suspect, in hindsight, it also demonstrated the limits of ironic detachment and plausible deniability in online extremism. The fringe has now shifted into the mainstream. 2/2

29.11.2024 06:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Paul Sutherland: LARP Politics and Hyperreality Paul Sutherland LARP refers to “live action roleplaying”, a genre of roleplaying game where a fictitious world with its own lore and internal logic is mutually agreed upon by multiple players. Each of...

Here's a piece I wrote, published earlier this year on Do Not Research. It's worth thinking about in light of the second Trump administration; the nature of Trumpism has evolved significantly in the last eight years. 1/2

donotresearch.substack.com/p/paul-suthe...

29.11.2024 06:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And at #AAANZ24, I talked about corecore, AI slop and how the digital mediation of the lifeworld enables a disposition of suspicion!

29.11.2024 06:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

At #APSA24, I presented my research into the phenomenology of the red pill and the search for ontological security in the post-truth era.

29.11.2024 06:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Conferences wrapped up! #APSA24 and #AAANZ24 Online in the same week!

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