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Photography compilation from various artists answering the question: what does āwhitenessā, stripped of any European or other white ethnic identity and instead serving as a marker for inclusion into white supremacy, actually look like? Foreword is really thought provoking, but the images moreso
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I hadnāt heard of this photographer before. He came to the US from Denmark around the late 60s and ended up extensively photographing - and sometimes living with - Black people in poverty. And later white people in the klan. Heās not without controversy, but I think this video does a good job of showing his images and letting him speak for himself. What heās done seems remarkable to me and Iām surprised Iāve never encountered his photos before.
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š·With the mass of images that we are bombarded with today, learning about photographic theory its applications has been super helpful to media literacy! I know weāre all online but itās really eye-opening when you actually go deeper
Oct 2, 2024
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Being a student pursuing a degree, I find myself leaning towards these photos as inspiration for many different purposes. These images that contain Black doctors and lawyers, writers, and scholars fulfill me with a purpose to carry on a legacy of history. A history that represents a people striving for knowledge to bring purpose, education, liberation, and joy to their lives amidst many hindrances and misery. Furthermore, these beautiful photos fall right in line with my aesthetic sensibilites. They are just so pleasing to the eye to look at, and the men in them are just as charming. The passion and poise, the sophistication and elegance seep through these images with ease.
Jul 5, 2025
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a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason itās still standing is bc itās unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isnāt just charting the attention economy but also attempting to āsolveā it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason itās still standing is bc itās unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isnāt just charting the attention economy but also attempting to āsolveā it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
