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First off, your paragraph on codes is excellent. By all means, yes, let’s activate the variable meanings of words and see what we get.

I wonder in what ways we could take this further. Language, and the i […]

In response to these productive conversations concerning technological encounters and expectations, I would like to add a brief addendum, or consideration. I find the discussions here concerning affect […]

One major part of this conversation is access to wealth and resources- Grand Theft Auto has it and Naniki doesn’t. I think this division is interesting because Naniki definitely strikes me as the odder, more u […]

Chy, I think it might be an interesting pursuit to apply your productive investigations into performativity toward your questions concerning the archive.

As you point out so much of history has been a […]

I find this conversation concerning various iterations of labor very interesting.

It would seem that we have 2 different strands of consideration, both of which have a great deal of overlap. On the one hand we […]

Chy, I definitely agree with your claim that “Perhaps what’s “scary” about (digital?) technology is the myriad ways in which it can be used” — We can see this in the shut down of Twitter in certain countries d […]

Gwen, I have some similar questions in response to the article and Thomas’s desire to have an Archive of Violence. For instance in addition to the question of “what sort of violence would count and how?,” anoth […]

Lindsey, thank you for constructing a digital space for a post-Conference discussion.

I was also struck by Vincent Brown’s presentation, and though I didn’t have any questions for him, I thought it brought up […]

“I think the mere fact-of-being-on-the-internet matters in a way that’s particularly easy to rationalize if one constructs the entire Internet as an archive.”

This is an interesting claim because it opens […]

Jeff, I have some trouble pining down what seems to be the relationships between a critique of Murray, the “spawned paradoxes,” and their relation to Lexo TV. So in my response please forgive me if I mis […]

Maxine, you raise a lot of really interesting points. I’d kind of like to go through them in sections.

First, you point out the aesthetic parallels between Glave and Naniki, with a particular emphasis on the o […]

To Maxine- In response to your skepticism that we can consider Majah Hype as an example of Harrell’s orature because we’re “leaning very heavily on a text that can’t bear the weight of it”- In a sense I feel that […]

I think “electronic textuality” is already different from “analog textuality,” but then again I also think that cassettes are a different textuality than cds, or pdfs are different textualities than the pages t […]

I wanted to note that I too was struck by the extreme feminization by Benitz-Rojo of the Caribbean. There were a number of keywords which stuck out to me as stereotypically (and problematically) feminized and […]

I too was struck by Walcott’s dialectical “slipperiness” in reading his article. I initially read it as a reductive “West vs. East” – exemplified, for instance, in his initial discussion of having never seen […]