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The Stonks meme has been superimposed onto the earth, spinning through dark space. An astronaut faces it, asking “Wait, they’re all memes?” A second astronaut stands behind them, gun pointed at the first, remarking: “always has been”.S
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May 13, 2021

STONKS Prologue: Dual Digital Discourse in the Post-MemeStocks Ledger

by Christine H. Tran and Arun Jacob How does a meme move? Held in your mouth, is it a verb, a noun, or an adjective?..
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May 13, 2021

A-Side: Gamer, Gambler, Trader, Troll

By Arun Jacob Introduction: Amor Intellectualis Diaboli What I felt was most interesting about the Gamestonk hullabaloo jumped at me from the pages of Adorno..
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A man in a business suit stands cross-armed against a blue background of stock prices, next to an orange arrow pointing sharply up. His head has been replaced with a simple computer graphic; the face flattened with small features imposed. The text at the bottom reads: “Stonks.”C
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May 13, 2021

C-Side: A Labour of Lulz: Meme STONKing in/as Cultural Work

By Christine H. Tran I. Stonks in Here Among Twitter users, a text meme persists about “the main character of the day” and how you..
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Video of a 3D moss model spinning so we can see each side. The long stems and velvety leaves range in green tones from dark to nearly bleached spots.D
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February 1, 2021

Disturbance in the Boundary Layer: An Ecological Approach to Digital Cultural Recuperation

By Haley Bryant   Part I: Moss in the Coolant Tank In June of 2019 I was invited, in my capacity as Digitization Specialist in..
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October 16, 2020

Desi Butch: Lines on a Page

This essay was originally published on The Cabaret Commons, as part of the “Process Posts” Series. See: http://www.cabaretcommons.org/desi-butch/ By Naveen Minai 1. I begin here..
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August 18, 2020

The mouth of the Internet, the eyes of the public: Sexual violence survivorship in an economy of visibility

By Nelanthi Hewa   This post was first published by the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC) on August 18, 2020. The latest version was published..
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Video image of the book cover for Crazy Rich Asians, which features the two stars of the movie adaptation embracing behind the gilded title. Blue medical masks are drawn onto their faces. Finally, the background of jewels and peacocks is tiled over with photos of people in masks, some behind bars, making the two embracing figures jarring and technicolour in comparison.S
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June 26, 2020

Stories that Sell

By Elisha Lim Part I: On social media, Covid-19 narratives eclipse human rights abuses, in Singapore and beyond I’ve never heard so much about my..
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June 25, 2020

Heavy Processing Part III — Risking IT: Breaking up with Compulsory Dispossessivity 

Heavy Processing for Digital Materials (More Than A Feeling) Jas Rault & T.L. Cowan Part III – Risking IT: Breaking up with Compulsory Dispossessivity  (See..
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June 25, 2020

Heavy Processing Part II — Central Processing Units: Trans- Feminist and Queer Manifestos and the Feminist Data Manifest-No Playlist

Heavy Processing for Digital Materials (More Than A Feeling) T.L. Cowan & Jas Rault Part II: Central Processing Units: Trans- Feminist and Queer Manifestos and..
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May 27, 2020

Heavy Processing Part I — Lesbian Processing

Heavy Processing for Digital Materials (More Than A Feeling) Jas Rault & T.L. Cowan Part I: Lesbian Processing (See Part II Central Processing Units and Part III Risking IT)..
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