Social photography – the rise of the amateurs: No scarcity, no masters
Some thoughts on how photography as documentation and art has changed through social media.
digital life
Please leave selfies alone – thoughts on the crisises of truth, identity and journalism
Social media makes the tension visible that comes with the slow change of our understanding of truth and identity performance. The crisis of journalism results partially from the focus on “advertising, PR and entertainment” and the logic of social networks, somethingsomethingaboutidentiy, but: Please leave Selfies alone.
When our bodies finally go
“It’s almost as though they were live streaming their lives to themselves, so they could understand it.” The livestreamer’s “job, as he sees it, isn’t to mediate imagery, but rather to vacuum up as much of it as he can.” One fine day in the not so distant future we will reach the critical point…
appleWave your hands in the air like you don’t care
Cash: the procedure of buying in which the exchange of goods for money is horribly visible, the spending of money most painful and the consumer profile least traceable. No wonder cash gets marketed as hard, inconvenient and unsocial. Poor cash. [insert image of person at the discounter checkout spending minutes searching for coins. teh horrorz! lolz]…