For the Moment, I Am Not Scrolling

Cover of Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement In Search of the Opt-Out Button by Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake (University of Westminster Press). Image by ketchup.

Andrew Culp and Cultural Studies Association’s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Chair Claudia Skinner take a look into Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake’s new book Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button, published by University of Westminster Press (2022). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Tero Karppi.

For the Moment, I Am Not Scrolling

Cover of Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement In Search of the Opt-Out Button by Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake (University of Westminster Press). Image by ketchup.

Andrew Culp and Cultural Studies Association’s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Chair Claudia Skinner take a look into Adi Kuntzman and Esperanza Miyake’s new book Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button, published by University of Westminster Press (2022).

Review of After Art by David Joselit (Princeton)

David Joselit’s slim volume “After Art” offers multiple intriguing frameworks to analyze art in the present-day globalized art world. After Art backs away from the traditional approach of artist intent and production and looks at what happens to images once they are attached to the networks that circulate them. Instead of proselytizing individual or even original artworks, Joselit champions images that are constantly reproduced and remediated by artists and architects such as Tania Bruguera, Ai Weiwei, Sherrie Levine, Matthew Barney, Le Corbusier, and Rem Koolhaus.