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Selfies | 自拍

In “Dim Stockings”, a short chapter included in his The Coming Community, Giorgio Agamben takes a cue from the prosaics of a stockings advertisement to discuss the commodification of images and bodies. His recognition of the industrial scale at which … Continue reading

17. February 2016 by Gabriele
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打酱油 | Digital folklore & Tumblr as a research tool

What the notebook adds to this strategy of alliance with the fetishism of commodities, however, is that the very instrument of research is a fetish. In English we have a phrase, “set a thief to catch a thief,” the idea … Continue reading

06. November 2014 by Gabriele
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