Book Review: Angela Nagle on The Online Culture Wars

I’m sure you’ve come across your share of alt-right/new right explainers, so much so you might in fact be tired of hearing about it. For one, I admit I barely skimmed through this huge one by the New York Times, as I have done with a few…

Counter-Stereotypes: The Black Nerd

As any avid consumer of US media I have become quite familiar with the range of identities commonly depicted in American movies and series, as well as some of the identity-related discussions around them. The importance given to clearly marked human types — in terms…

The Aesthetics of Productive Anxiety: Silvio Lorusso and the Entreprecariat

The essay below was first published, among many great others, in:

DIGIMAG JOURNAL | ISSUE 75 | DIGITAL IDENTITIES, SELF NARRATIVES
Curated by Silvia Bertolotti and Marco…

Eating Stereotypes: the Fluid Identity of Street Food Joints

Report: Techno Resistance and Black Futures

After Rome, my visit to the Techno Resistance, Black Futures conference came as a nice complementary experience. While Fear and Loathing of the Online Self was more concerned with the circulation of identity and its political potential, the event at…

The (Elusive) History of Tagging

Since I’ve known the word, tagging is that thing we do when we associate certain keywords to a piece of online content. I think the first time I consciously tagged was while managing the del.icio.us account of an online magazine I worked for, but it wasn’t an entirely new…

Report: Fear and Loathing of the Online Self, Rome

I have been to a few INC conferences in my Amsterdam years, so when they announced they were tackling online identity this time I just had to go. Organized in collaboration with John Cabot University and Roma Tre, Fear and Loathing of the…

Tagging the Criminal: YouTube Gangsters

This post is a partial adaptation of my presentation at last year’s NWCDTP conference, which I attended in Liverpool. It was a great chance to really reflect on the type of tagging I intend to zero in on in my case studies, as well as listen to a lot of cool…

For a Cultural Critique of Tagging

OK, this post is not a cultural critique of tagging. That is, however, what my research project is…

Of Stereotype, or the Unbearable Awkwardness of the First Post

This will be a research outlet for thinking and writing about stereotype in the age of algorithms and social media.

To be honest I’m not too fond of the “age of” cliché, it implies a linear…