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SCOPIC COLONIALISM
Script: Liviu Poenaru, PhD _
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DOG WHISTLES, HATE AND POLITICAL MANIPULATION
L. Poenaru In the realm of politics, a "dog whistle" refers to the strategic use of coded or suggestive language intended to appeal to a...
THE BARRAGE OF STIMULI IN CYBERCAPITALISM AND THE OPPONENT PROCESSES
L. Poenaru The barrage of stimuli in cybercapitalism—characterized by constant exposure to digital content, rapid information cycles, and...
AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS AND WEAPONIZATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA
[traduction française ci-dessous] The age of autonomous weapons and social networks presents a paradox of empowerment and disempowerment,...
digital panopticon
Social media platforms amplify social pressures and norms, encouraging conformity. This can limit individuals' willingness to express...
ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms. In Algorithms of...
CONSUMER CULTURE, IDENTITY & WELL-BEING
Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of...
IRRESISTIBLE. The rise of addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked
Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction—an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We...
Increases in Depression, Self-Harm, and Suicide Among U.S. Adolescents After 2012
Abstract Objective Increases in depression among adolescents have been concurrent with increases in digital media use. In this article,...
The visual politics of affect in suicide attacks
Verena Straub and Jonas Bens Suicide attacks, in which fighters are willing to sacrifice their own life to commit an act of violence,...
The affective lives of colonial economies
Bassem Saad and Jonas Bens Our global economy is fundamentally governed by colonial logics. The resulting power inequalities, ecological...
AFFECT AND COLONIALISM
The Affect and Colonialism Web Lab brings together researchers, journalists, activists, and artists all over the world interested in the...
IMAGE OPERATIONS. VISUAL MEDIA AND POLITICAL CONFLICT
Still and moving images are crucial factors in contemporary political conflicts. They not only have representational, expressive or...
SOFT IMAGE. Towards a new theory of digital image
With today’s digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable view of a database that...
VISUAL INTELLIGENCE. Perception, image and manipulation in visual communication
Today, our environment is dominated by the visual. This book explores "visual intelligence" as a basic and indispensable tool of cultural...
ICONOLOGIE. Image, texte et idéologie
À la confluence de l'histoire de l'art, de l'esthétique, de la théorie littéraire et des cultural studies, une discipline proprement «...
THROUGH THE CROSSHAIRS
Now that it has become so commonplace, we rarely blink an eye at camera footage framed by the crosshairs of a sniper’s gun or from the...
AFFLICTED POWERS. CAPITAL AND SPECTACLE IN A NEW AGE OF WAR
Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the...
SEEING AND BELIEVING
Social media platforms are often denounced as “bubbles” or “echo chambers.” In this view, what we see tends to reinforce what we already...
COMPUTATIONAL AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF VISION
Despite a plethora of scientific literature devoted to vision research and the trend toward integrative research, the borders between...
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