Tonia Sutherland on how AI/3D/holograms embodiments of archived record that serves commercial interests and whiteness/spectacle are a kind ghost slavery. Close read of Tupac at Coachella
It’s carcerality + code + archives + spectacle
Me: We will be wrestling with this a lot as the tools to turn trace and archival data into ghosts becomes democratized
My position on babies is on the record. I won’t be covering it here. Agree etc.
I only want to add that I wonder whatever happened to just being…mildly annoyed. You know, my default state? You can be annoyed and just…sit with that.
You roll your eyes a little. Maybe you suck your teeth. But you just sort of suck it up. There is a whole emotional range between “happily accept” and “rage out” that we lost over the last 20 years. I think about this a lot.
I would go so far as to argue that if you’re doing plural society right, you’re mildly annoyed more often than you’re not.
And I don’t have symptoms, as far as I know. I did go plant-based (don’t want to talk about it because it’s impossible to do without being effing annoying) but I will do any of the things up to a Paltrow egg in my hooha. I will not do that.
I will say, I’m mean. BUT, I am told by independent parties that I was always mean, I just hid it better.
I met a Black woman sociologist this week whose work I recognized. She says we met at Emory! I assume we overlapped in grad school. She meant…she was in undergrad. She remembers me teaching my advisor’s strat class. Today she is a faculty member at Harvard.
I am one million years old.
More earnestly, she remembers that lecture on race and for-profits fondly and I am so touched that I am telling everyone.
Hustle culture + phone alerts + guns+ filters + no fresh air + hustle culture.
I asked my students about LinkedIn this semester and these basically-youth-adjacent people said they have been on it since MIDDLE SCHOOL. For why, Craig?? Networking in middle school. We are sick.
I cannot get over it. I think about it almost every day. Middle schoolers fresh from a day of shooter drills going home to not touch grass and check their Linked In for recruiter emails. What are we even saving our world for at this point?