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does things with words writer/artist, books @ Verso, Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury, Tramp, Transit, Joan+++, column @ Art Review, ex Spike Art, more @ joannawalsh.ie

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isn't it. but you should also visit roy exotique in 10e

11.10.2025 18:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ha, I'm not sure she's read it yet tho...

11.10.2025 11:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

doesn't it. but only in words. i tried to photograph it but the moon isn't photogenic

06.10.2025 18:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
White text: "Praxis Basic Income For The Arts" + logo on pink background.

White text: "Praxis Basic Income For The Arts" + logo on pink background.

Pink Text: The Case for The Basic Income For The Arts. + Praxis logo.
Black Text : Praxis advocates:
โ— That the BIA scheme should be implemented permanently
โ— That the BIA should be expanded to all eligible artists in Ireland
โ— That the BIA should be allocated for an indefinite period of time
โ— That the rate of the BIA should be indexed to inflation
light grey background.

Pink Text: The Case for The Basic Income For The Arts. + Praxis logo. Black Text : Praxis advocates: โ— That the BIA scheme should be implemented permanently โ— That the BIA should be expanded to all eligible artists in Ireland โ— That the BIA should be allocated for an indefinite period of time โ— That the rate of the BIA should be indexed to inflation light grey background.

At @praxisunion.bsky.social we took in the Dept reports and interviews, listened to members, have had discussions with people from Basic Income Ireland, and hope we are making a good case for a moderately maximalist approach. Full text here www.praxisunion.ie/the-case-for...

03.10.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reading in Marseille on Wednesday and talking with Mary Fitzgerald - please come!

06.10.2025 06:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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lolcats @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social !

01.10.2025 11:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i was part of this class action against anthropic ai & it worked.

in a landmark ruling, creators will now receive around $3000 for each eligible work used to train anthropic (more difficult to claim if like me you're outside the us). more here:

www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...

30.09.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Or just shortcut and put courgettes in kettle (probably serially depending on size).Then they will be ready cooked for you too.

30.09.2025 13:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

don't put them in the fridge- courgettes won't go off in Sept heat. Put each in a tea mug likely to be used by you/colleagues between the hours of 4&6. Each time mug is used they'll ask who put a courgette there & you transfer that courgette to an unused mug. hopefully someone will have a late cuppa

30.09.2025 13:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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don't want to overload with book content so here's my train lunch going up to Manchester for an event @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social tonight... (beer b/c celebrating news of a co-edition :)

30.09.2025 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Review | How amateurs built the internetโ€™s aesthetics Joanna Walshโ€™s latest treatise catalogues how our online creative efforts have created and discarded garish styles.

3 lovely reviews of Amateurs! from @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, @washingtonpost.com & @publisherswkly.bsky.social!

lareviewofbooks.org/article/prol...

www.publishersweekly.com/9781839765391

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

30.09.2025 12:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

tonight!!!

30.09.2025 10:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Amateurs! Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of comm...

Pre-ordered as soon as this went live, came today, devouring it already. @badaude.bsky.social a great guide for this journey. Fuck it makes me sad tho, thinking about The Internet That Might Have Been and How It Was Online In the Old Days. Brilliant so far.

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

27.09.2025 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

so glad you're (not) enjoying it!

27.09.2025 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Proletarians of the Screen | Los Angeles Review of Books Helena Aeberli investigates the aesthetics of memes and trash essays in Joanna Walshโ€™s โ€œAmateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters.โ€

"Sprawling and theoretically rich, Amateurs! is a passionate and provocative account of this online amateurism." @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

lareviewofbooks.org/article/prol...

26.09.2025 08:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tomorrow at Wivenhoe Books Colchester ! www.wivenhoebooks.com/events/amate...

25.09.2025 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Amateurs! Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of comm...

Out this week, looks like a belter from @badaude.bsky.social - just got the email from @versobooks.bsky.social to say mine's on the way ๐Ÿ™โœŠ๏ธ

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

25.09.2025 08:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
I'd add that portrait photography was also used as a nine-teenth-century FRT (facial recognition technology). In the first state-sponsored large-scale photo-portrait project in France, arresting officers captured the faces of revolutionaries during the 1871 Paris Commune, ensuring they could be recaptured if their identities ever went viral on the contemporary media net-works of daily papers. These photographs were not produced or received as works of art, but they were aesthetic. In a time when a selfie was a once-in-a-lifetime privilege, communards had their best clothes brought to jail for their (literal) photo shoots.
The same impulse that led me to mess around with my Al image led to many rearrests.

I'd add that portrait photography was also used as a nine-teenth-century FRT (facial recognition technology). In the first state-sponsored large-scale photo-portrait project in France, arresting officers captured the faces of revolutionaries during the 1871 Paris Commune, ensuring they could be recaptured if their identities ever went viral on the contemporary media net-works of daily papers. These photographs were not produced or received as works of art, but they were aesthetic. In a time when a selfie was a once-in-a-lifetime privilege, communards had their best clothes brought to jail for their (literal) photo shoots. The same impulse that led me to mess around with my Al image led to many rearrests.

In her new book on internet culture, @badaude.bsky.social discusses the use of photography as facial recognition technology during the Paris Commune. It reminded me of Schรคublinโ€™s exceptional film Unrest, following Kropotkinโ€™s 1877 visit to a Swiss village transformed by capitalism and anarchy 1/3

24.09.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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excellent launch last night - full house @burleyfisher.bsky.social for Amateurs! (@versobooks.bsky.social)

photo c/o @athanasioslazarou on instagram

24.09.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

sorry to have missed you - we ended up going to a different pub!
excellent to meet you too - thanks for coming.

24.09.2025 14:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This Week's New Titles New titles available this week: Amateurs! by Joanna Walsh [book-strip index="1"] Buy a copy of Amateurs!ย and get 30% off any of the selected titles below. Discount will be applied in cart. Books must ...

We have three new titles out this week, including an exposรฉ of the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy from @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social and a philosophical history of the internet by @badaude.bsky.social

23.09.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is a MUST read.

23.09.2025 11:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โค๏ธ

23.09.2025 12:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

:)

23.09.2025 10:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thanks!

23.09.2025 10:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thank you!

23.09.2025 10:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thank you!

23.09.2025 09:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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published today by @versobooks.bsky.social !

www.versobooks.com/products/2862-amateurs

(discount on @blackwells.bsky.social just saying... blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...)

23.09.2025 09:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 84    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

I have an extra ticket to this if anyone needs it - get in touch!

23.09.2025 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Tonight!

23.09.2025 09:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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