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@AntoinetteAmorese [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Remembering a time before the great Marvel Comics went #woke:
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#BrandMarvelComicsStanLee
Supplementary #2023_TheWizardOfAI https://alanwarburton.co.uk/thewizardofai #PhenomnVideoEssay by #IRLAnimatorAlanWarburton offers up a technological #TheoryInstrumentalism.ist view of generative AI framed according to an #MetaphorVersusUsThem logic. His #TheoryDeterminismFatalistic perspective describes the phenomenon in terms of a supposed 'wonder panic' (which appears to be simply a rebadging of the #NarrativeUtopianismTechnological concept), which he contrast with #TheoryAffectiveResponseNarrativeTechnophobia. #TheoryModernityLiquid #PleaAuthenticity #MetaphorVersusLegitimateIllegitimate #VlogAIInsightsExplorer (review of the above) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZxzradL_GY He makes mention of the concept of #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical i.e. "the 'technological imaginary' refers us to the way that new technologies are taken up within a culture and are hooked into, or have projected onto them" Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly (2003). 'New Media: A Critical Introduction'. https://www.routledge.com/New-Media-A-Critical-Introduction/Lister-Dovey-Giddings-Grant-Kelly/p/book/9780415431613
Addendum https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-uncanny-failures-of-ai-generated-hands And https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/ai-generated-art-hands-fingers-messed-up
Supplementary #2023_TheWizardOfAI https://alanwarburton.co.uk/thewizardofai #PhenomnVideoEssay by #IRLAnimatorAlanWarburton offers up a technological #TheoryInstrumentalism.ist view of generative AI framed according to an #MetaphorVersusUsThem logic. His #TheoryDeterminismFatalistic perspective describes the phenomenon in terms of a supposed 'wonder panic' (which appears to be simply a rebadging of the #NarrativeUtopianismTechnological concept), which he contrast with #TheoryAffectiveResponseNarrativeTechnophobia. #TheoryModernityLiquid #PleaAuthenticity #MetaphorVersusLegitimateIllegitimate #VlogAIInsightsExplorer (review of the above) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZxzradL_GY He makes mention of the concept of #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical i.e. "the 'technological imaginary' refers us to the way that new technologies are taken up within a culture and are hooked into, or have projected onto them" Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly (2003). 'New Media: A Critical Introduction'. https://www.routledge.com/New-Media-A-Critical-Introduction/Lister-Dovey-Giddings-Grant-Kelly/p/book/9780415431613
Addendum https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-uncanny-failures-of-ai-generated-hands And https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/ai-generated-art-hands-fingers-messed-up
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@PreciousTekie [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #woke [URL redacted]
#MetaphorDiseaseMindVirus
#PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI
#PhenomnEmancipation
#CauseEqualityMarriage
#OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSAbrahamLincoln
#OrgUSNtlWomanSuffrageAssociationSusanAnthony
#PolicyUniversalSuffrage
#IRLActivistJudithHeumann
#IRLActivistMartinLutherKingMLK
#IRLHistoricalFigureHarveyMilk
#IRLHistoricalFigureRosaParks
#OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSGeorgeWashington
#BeliefTheismDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah
#PleaMAGA
#ConspiracyTheory_Conspiracist
#EpistemologyAmateurExegetePatternSeeking
#CaricaturistMattWuerker
#MetaphorRedYarnAndCorkboard
Supplementary #MagazineUKTheSpectatorPatrickWest "Many on the left decry with airy disdain that complaints of 'cancellation' and 'wokery' are just antediluvian grunts of conservatives who don't like, or don't understand, the modern world - with its new, strange manners concerning matters race and gender. Then there are the shopkeeper-type conservatives, who think the culture wars are all a silly hoo-ha about pronouns, toilet usage, dramas about Cleopatra and the Royal Family as seen on TV. They scold that we should be properly concerned with material materials: the cost of living, inflation, mortgage payments, industrial disputes, the future of the Conservative party. Both conclusions, from the complacent left and bean-counting right, are based on misapprehensions. They derive from a double falsehood. The culture wars are really taking place, whether the left likes or not. And the culture wars are a bread-and-butter issue, whether the right likes or not. " https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lets-stop-pretending-the-culture-wars-arent-real/ #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleAntediluvian
Addendum #IRLAuthorCharlesLeadbeater's #2009_WeThink #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical manifesto for the (then) seemingly unavoidable #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryCulture / #EpistemologyAmateurCulturalProduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo over-optimistically and #TheoryInstrumentalism.ally imagined only the potential advantages of such a sea-change: breaking down legacy, siloed ways of thinking/working would automatically lead to mass creativity. What was missing however, was the realisation that such conceptualisation assumes a common cultural understanding and objectives i.e. the #PoliticsStatusQuo - essentially, the further spread and reach of #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated values / a #TheoryHyperculture perspective - not the flourishing of divergent perspectives and with it, the surge in #ConspiracyTheory_.ies, the emergence of #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryDisinformation, #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAutodidactDilettantism and charges of #MetaphorWarfareCulture and #CatchcryCancelCulture, supposedly mobilised as a singularly, unified attack against #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues - representing a manifestly binary duality of #MetaphorVersusEverydayPeopleLiberals. #TheoryModernityReflexive
Supplementary #MagazineUKTheSpectatorPatrickWest "Many on the left decry with airy disdain that complaints of 'cancellation' and 'wokery' are just antediluvian grunts of conservatives who don't like, or don't understand, the modern world - with its new, strange manners concerning matters race and gender. Then there are the shopkeeper-type conservatives, who think the culture wars are all a silly hoo-ha about pronouns, toilet usage, dramas about Cleopatra and the Royal Family as seen on TV. They scold that we should be properly concerned with material materials: the cost of living, inflation, mortgage payments, industrial disputes, the future of the Conservative party. Both conclusions, from the complacent left and bean-counting right, are based on misapprehensions. They derive from a double falsehood. The culture wars are really taking place, whether the left likes or not. And the culture wars are a bread-and-butter issue, whether the right likes or not. " https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lets-stop-pretending-the-culture-wars-arent-real/ #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleAntediluvian
Addendum #IRLAuthorCharlesLeadbeater's #2009_WeThink #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical manifesto for the (then) seemingly unavoidable #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryCulture / #EpistemologyAmateurCulturalProduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo over-optimistically and #TheoryInstrumentalism.ally imagined only the potential advantages of such a sea-change: breaking down legacy, siloed ways of thinking/working would automatically lead to mass creativity. What was missing however, was the realisation that such conceptualisation assumes a common cultural understanding and objectives i.e. the #PoliticsStatusQuo - essentially, the further spread and reach of #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated values / a #TheoryHyperculture perspective - not the flourishing of divergent perspectives and with it, the surge in #ConspiracyTheory_.ies, the emergence of #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryDisinformation, #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAutodidactDilettantism and charges of #MetaphorWarfareCulture and #CatchcryCancelCulture, supposedly mobilised as a singularly, unified attack against #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues - representing a manifestly binary duality of #MetaphorVersusEverydayPeopleLiberals. #TheoryModernityReflexive
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@BeckyFabri [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #wokeness nothing changed.. elites (‘progressive, democrats, billionaires maybe) rule.. #Woke ps: special thanks @tabletmag [URL redacted]
#PoliticsCapitalism
#MetaphorSpatialHierarchyStratificationSocial
#MagazineUSPuck
#CaricaturistBernhardGillam
#1883_TheProtectorsOfOurIndustries [US Library of Congress]
#TauntRobberBaronIndustrialist
#PhenomnRevolutionIndustrial
#BrandDotdashMeredithThoughtCoRobertMcNamara "The men who were called robber barons were often portrayed in a positive light, as 'self-made men' who had helped build the nation and in the process created many jobs for American workers. However, the public mood turned against them in the late 19th century. Criticism from newspapers and social critics began to find an audience. And American workers began to organize in great numbers as the labor movement accelerated. " https://www.thoughtco.com/robber-baron-definition-1773342
#TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype
#MetaphorPeriodizationGildedAge [Wikipedia]
Context #IRLHistoricalFigureCyrusField, #IRLHistoricalFigureJayGould, #IRLHistoricalFigureCorneliusVanderbilt, and #IRLHistoricalFigureRussellSage
Supplementary #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardDigitalDataDesignInstituteAtHarvardJenniferStave SXSW 2025 "Our AI-Driven World: A Utopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBNxhNKEcjA&t=238s https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP152914 #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardBusinessSchoolKarimLakhani [Wikipedia] #IRLEntrepreneurShikharGhosh [Wikipedia] #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardDigitalDataDesignInstituteAtHarvard [Instagram] https://d3.harvard.edu/about-us/ #PhenomnCulturalFormSpeculativeFiction [Wikipedia] #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerative #PoliticsTechnocracy #EpistemologyAmateurCulturalProduction versus #PowerControlExclusion #NarrativeUtopiaDystopia [Wikipedia] #NarrativeUtopiaEschatologyApocalypticism #PhenomnProtestFigureLuddite [Wikipedia] #TheoryAccelerationism ? #MetaphorTransformationOssification [dictionary]
#TheoryTechnologicalSingularity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYCf4ONh5M&t=368s #MagazineWiredKevinKelly: http://folksonomy.simonperkins.co.uk/?permalink=872 #2007_ #NarrativeUtopianismTechnologicalInternetOfThings #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical #ConspiracyTheory_Transhumanism
#IRLCuratorJudithBenhamou "These animated creatures romp around in a small park without colliding, and periodically eject from their rear ends photographs showing the spectators who are looking at them. 'In future, sculptures will inevitably come to be living objects,' Beeple argues. But why mix artists and tech billionaires here? 'Because in both cases we look at the world through their lens.' By the opening of the fair, nine of the ten human-headed dogs had already been sold, at [USD] 100,000 dollars each." https://judithbenhamou.com/art-basel-miami-beach-a-sublime-joan-mitchell-a-coral-reef-robot-dogs-with-billionaires-heads-and-the-great-comeback-of-enthusiasm/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kIs2A0dMo #IRLArtistPabloPicasso #IRLArtistAndyWarhol #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #BrandAmazonJeffBezos #BrandTechMetaMarkZuckerberg #MagazineUSARTnewsDanielCassady "The installation, Regular Animals by Beeple (a.k.a. Mike Winkelmann), is part satire, part dystopia, part slapstick theater. In it, a pen of robot dogs (or is it pigs?) have been fitted with grotesquely lifelike heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jeff Bezos, and Beeple himself. They wander, they twitch, they clash--and then, at intervals likely engineered for maximum dramatic tension, they tip backward and eject a printed image from their backsides." https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/beeple-pooping-robot-dogs-at-art-basel-miami-beach-1234765375/ #IRLArtistMikeWinkelmannAKABeeple [Wikipedia] #2025_RegularAnimals
Context #IRLHistoricalFigureCyrusField, #IRLHistoricalFigureJayGould, #IRLHistoricalFigureCorneliusVanderbilt, and #IRLHistoricalFigureRussellSage
Supplementary #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardDigitalDataDesignInstituteAtHarvardJenniferStave SXSW 2025 "Our AI-Driven World: A Utopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBNxhNKEcjA&t=238s https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP152914 #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardBusinessSchoolKarimLakhani [Wikipedia] #IRLEntrepreneurShikharGhosh [Wikipedia] #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardDigitalDataDesignInstituteAtHarvard [Instagram] https://d3.harvard.edu/about-us/ #PhenomnCulturalFormSpeculativeFiction [Wikipedia] #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerative #PoliticsTechnocracy #EpistemologyAmateurCulturalProduction versus #PowerControlExclusion #NarrativeUtopiaDystopia [Wikipedia] #NarrativeUtopiaEschatologyApocalypticism #PhenomnProtestFigureLuddite [Wikipedia] #TheoryAccelerationism ? #MetaphorTransformationOssification [dictionary]
#TheoryTechnologicalSingularity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYCf4ONh5M&t=368s #MagazineWiredKevinKelly: http://folksonomy.simonperkins.co.uk/?permalink=872 #2007_ #NarrativeUtopianismTechnologicalInternetOfThings #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical #ConspiracyTheory_Transhumanism
#IRLCuratorJudithBenhamou "These animated creatures romp around in a small park without colliding, and periodically eject from their rear ends photographs showing the spectators who are looking at them. 'In future, sculptures will inevitably come to be living objects,' Beeple argues. But why mix artists and tech billionaires here? 'Because in both cases we look at the world through their lens.' By the opening of the fair, nine of the ten human-headed dogs had already been sold, at [USD] 100,000 dollars each." https://judithbenhamou.com/art-basel-miami-beach-a-sublime-joan-mitchell-a-coral-reef-robot-dogs-with-billionaires-heads-and-the-great-comeback-of-enthusiasm/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kIs2A0dMo #IRLArtistPabloPicasso #IRLArtistAndyWarhol #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #BrandAmazonJeffBezos #BrandTechMetaMarkZuckerberg #MagazineUSARTnewsDanielCassady "The installation, Regular Animals by Beeple (a.k.a. Mike Winkelmann), is part satire, part dystopia, part slapstick theater. In it, a pen of robot dogs (or is it pigs?) have been fitted with grotesquely lifelike heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jeff Bezos, and Beeple himself. They wander, they twitch, they clash--and then, at intervals likely engineered for maximum dramatic tension, they tip backward and eject a printed image from their backsides." https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/beeple-pooping-robot-dogs-at-art-basel-miami-beach-1234765375/ #IRLArtistMikeWinkelmannAKABeeple [Wikipedia] #2025_RegularAnimals
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