PinnedAgainst Platform RealismThis is NOT a Social Media Censorship Manifesto. In this essay I will… — Meta, is everywhere (née The Meta, The Facebook, The Instagram). It seems like when Silicon Valley companies only do a rebrand as a victory lap, Facebook became Meta when it bought instagram and became uniquely ubiquitous. A place where you can gaze at the entirety of the internet. Image based…16 min read16 min read
Published in The Future Left·PinnedUNMASK THE TOP: A Call for Museum Transparency & DiversityIn UNMASK THE TOP: A Call for Museum Transparency & Diversity “Who are the patrons of art, the museum board members, the collectors? Who is the audience for high culture? Who is allowed to interpret culture? Who is asked to make fundamental policy decisions? Who sets the priorities?” …Curatela14 min readCuratela14 min read
Feb 28, 2022Andrea Long Chu’s Micropolitical Challenge For Contemporary Feminism (Draft)You can read the full essay The Pink | Issue 34 | n+1 Andrea Long Chu’s (ALC) most recent essay, The Pink, is a journey through her experience of transitioning during the era of the women’s march, the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. After the shock Presidential victory of…11 min read11 min read
Published in The Future Left·Nov 12, 2020Anthropocentrism, Anti-Anthropocentrism, & the FutureEssay written for presentation at Living in the Age of Uncertainty [Public Discussion on Climate Change] at the cultural series Ecology of The Edge programmed with Human Resources in Los Angeles on Saturday, November 30, 2019. The Colonial-Industrial Anthropocene and the Subjects it Creates Questions about the coming era always find premises in history, and the mark of…10 min read10 min read
Published in The Future Left·Oct 11, 2020Handle With Care: Post-Institutional Infrastructures in an Age of CollapseINTRODUCTION: BEYOND THE CRITICAL VANGUARD INSTITUTION Crises precipitate change, and the moment of the early 2020s constitutes a critical window for the creation of new patterns and forms of research and practice which, in all likelihood, will be not only implemented for their own chosen purposes, but will also be freely…13 min read13 min read
Dec 3, 2017RE: TAX BILL. DON’T FREAK. READ THIS.1. So, the new version of the bill has to be passed the Senate but the same version must pass through House before going through Trump. Basically, House and Senate (H&T) bills must be same version before being signed by the president. It might seem simple for the bill to…Congress3 min readCongress3 min read
Nov 25, 2017Cómo defender la neutralidad de red desde hoyWritten by Matthew Donovan. Translated by Carol Iglesias. Prácticamente todo el mundo, con la excepción de los proveedores de servicios de internet, apoya la neutralidad de red. Esto incluye tanto a Republicanos como a Demócratas, por lo tanto, la pregunta crucial es: ¿qué podemos hacer para luchar en su defensa…Net Neutrality9 min readNet Neutrality9 min read
Nov 22, 2017HOW TO DEFEND NET NEUTRALITY TODAYSpanish translation available here. Edited by Kristel Jax. Almost everyone but internet providers support Net Neutrality, including Republicans and Democrats, so the really important question becomes — what are we to do to fight back? …Net Neutrality8 min readNet Neutrality8 min read
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