This conference was organised by the Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities and looked at the impact new (and not so new) technologies are having on the ways art is produced and received by audiences. Speakers also explored concepts …
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Hannah Arendt and Digital Thinking
I’ve recently read Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. It was a bestselling title on Amazon in 2017, a fact attributed to Trump’s election. But as the book makes clear totalitarian politics has no single or clear origin. No one …
Operation Black Antler Project
I’m currently researching identity and the far right for a project I’ll (hopefully) be starting soon on Blast Theory and Hydrocracker’s piece ‘Operation Black Antler‘. I just finished ‘The Road to Somewhere’ by David Goodhart and am now …
Reflections on the Stories of Solitude: Performance, Technology and Digital Overload Conference
This post was originally published on the CityLIS blog
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This event was part of York Mediale, a new UK festival bringing together artists and technologist. Part celebration, part investigation, part space to question the ethical, social, political, economic and …
The Politics of Denialism is Becoming the New Normal
Phrases like post-truth and fake news are closely associated with Brexit and Trump, but the antecedent of modern disinformation is Holocaust denial.
Holocaust denial is as much about the tarnishing of expertise as it is an anti-semitic conspiracy theory. But …