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

Bamboozled. Dave Chappelle and the Social Responsibility of TV Sketches

I’m republishing a pretty old article (2011) that was originally published in Off-beat Cinema, a short-lived Amsterdam magazine on underground cinema. It’s about Dave Chappelle and using stereotypes on TV.

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…

Postcard from Amsterdam: The Emerging Amsterdam Zuid-Oost Art Scene

This piece was originally published on the now defunct Frieze blog in April 2013.

The Social Dilem-MEH

A slightly shorter version of this piece was originally published in Italian on Rivista Studio.

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…

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…

For a Cultural Critique of Tagging

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