#new materialism

[bookshopsbizarreblog]

You know how people talk about rooms having specific energies, like they can feel the vibes of the place and how good/bad those are? Well it turns out that is very much an actual thing, just not in the way I was expecting!

Think, for example, about classrooms. Most all of them are designed to have all the students seated and facing forwards. The teacher is physically oriented as the center of attention and is usually able to stand up, thus further creating a micro power dynamic. The white board behind them constantly draws the eye towards whatever information they've presented; no matter how bored a student is, they will eventually drift back to it.

Classrooms are specifically designed to encourage a specific mode of interaction within them, to create a certain dynamic between teacher and students, and where this gets really crazy is when you start thinking about classrooms in the more abstract sense. Because we have all used them, the social rules for their use have become increasingly cemented such that there are specific expectations people have of the space. The individual layout of each classroom becomes subservient to the larger classroom ideal we are all pulled into once we walk through the doors.

In a very real way, different spaces have incredibly powerful vibes. Through both their physical layout and our social ideas about them, they shape our behavior and even our cognitive processes. They inform what we see as appropriate actions, what we see as transgressive, and our expectations for the next period of time.

I wasn't expecting to learn all of this from a history lecture, but I just thought it was really cool and haven't been able to stop thinking about it for the last week. Next time you walk into a place, try thinking about what its layout implies, or the social roles and rules you find yourself automatically clinging to within it. Convenience stores, public parks, entry hallways, parking lots, and every other space has some message it's screaming in a voice most people rarely perceive. It's fascinating to think about

#history major #college #philosophy #new materialism #material culture #education #public space #the world around us sings in voices we are normalized to not hearing #everything is connected #the witches were right

[cybergardenities]

Hello people of the universe.

Welcome to the Cybergardenities Archive, please read this post to get a hold what we’ll be doing here.

On this page I will be posting my artistic research in the field of anti and posthumanities. There will be several types of posts. Expect source text repositories (links to texts I’m working with), cool art I find (both relating to specific project and appealing to my general interests) and finally my own projects. I will also share music recommendations, and different thoughts I have about state of our world, but I want to maintain focus on documenting creative and research processes I’m doing. I do my research to inform myself and others on different aspects of solarpunk, here understood as a modern, multi-faceted counterculture movement that seeks to overthrow and replace current socioeconomic system with one that respects everything that lives (or not).

Discussion and suggestion is encouraged <33. Bear in mind that transphobes, racists, antisemites, queerphobes, ableists and all bigots will be banned relentlessly, human rights are not up for discussion, respect people here.

Video editing and color grading commissions are welcome, please check at the portfolio post if you want to know more.

Thank you and wish you a pleasant stay.

#cybergardenities #posthumanism #biohacking #transhackfeminism #xenofeminism #art #new materialism #research art #cybergarden #counterculture #artist research #queer #trans #transfeminism #postcolonial #glitch feminism #glitch art #punk

[sluttyhaecceities]

“The great concentrator wants stable circuits, even cycles, predictable repetitions, untroubled accountability. It wants to eliminate every partial drive, it wants to immobilize the body. Such is the anxiety of the emperor of whom Borges speaks, who demanded a map of the entire empire so exact that it had to cover the entire territory in every aspect and therefore duplicate its scale exactly, to such an extent that the monarch’s subjects spent so much time and used up so much energy in putting the finishing touches to it and maintaining it that the empire ‘itself’ fell more and more into ruin as its cartographic blueprint became more and more perfect—such is the madness of the great central Zero, its desire to bring a body, which can only ‘be’ if it is represented, to a standstill.”

— Jean-François Lyotard, Économie libidinale, 1973

#lyotard #philosophy #post structuralism #poststructuralism #libidinal economy #new materialism #deleuze and guattari

[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/NewMaterialism/mode/2up

This book is the first monograph on the theme of “new materialism,” an emerging trend in 21st century thought that has already left its mark in such fields as philosophy, cultural theory, feminism, science studies, and the arts. The first part of the book contains elaborate interviews with some of the most prominent new materialist scholars of today: Rosi Braidotti, Manuel DeLanda, Karen Barad, and Quentin Meillassoux. The second part situates the new materialist tradition in contemporary thought by singling out its transversal methodology, its position on sexual differing, and by developing the ethical and political consequences of new materialism.

#philosophy #new materialism

[theorydiagrams]

karen barad, meeting the universe halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning (2007)

#karen barad #gilles deleuze #new materialism #feminism #radical feminism

[whoissubnet]

I post this at a time where I am going viral in instagram. When I watch this video, pondering about watching people look at art, I have a strange sensation like i'm looking at the back of my own head......

#new media art #glitch #philosophy #video art #new materialism

[ariminiria]

remember to do your part by giving Amazon's Rings of Power show the Morbius treatment

#hey there Blaze victim! check the notes for extra context #tl;dr: egregious disrespect for the source material and -more importantly- workers rights abuses #also theres a chance that we could kill amazon streaming if this flops so #happy morbing! #rings of power #its morbin time #every single 'ooh new first look' fille me with unbridled rage #anti rings of power #lord of the rings #tolkien #lotr #it's morbin time

[deimosatellite]

#when we thought the atla MIGHT be ok after opla but it turns out opla is just an exception #HS9D8FUIPJLK #annie rambles #opla #one piece #avatar the last airbender #ive heard mixed reviews about the atla live action but the consensus feels like the writers werent in tune with the source enough #where opla it really feels like the writers understand op at its core so thus were able to transform it #but maybe thats just me #80U9DSFPOJKL #i have so many thoughts on how much i liked opla i should make a separate post but like. for one not disrespecting source by #saying that the new take is ''more for adults" or whatever / all that nonsense #and again just respecting source material feels like a major difference here

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Anyone talking about 'curses' and 'letting curses out if you open things' on the Pyramid post, but also y'know Ancient Egypt in general?

Thanks for perpetuating Orientalist othering! That's pretty racist of you!

✨Go Fuck Yourself✨

#every goddamn time I let people know of a new discovery in Egypt #get some new material #or at least material that isn't just a racist trope

[norue67]

Do not worry! I can’t do anything but I will cry with you

#pokemon #scarlet violet #pokemon gen 9 #SMOLIV MY BELOVED #sobble #smoliv #it is so cute #i want to protect it #but i also kind of want to crush it #press it into olive oil #love the hours right after a new announcement when high quality memes and art suddenly materialize out of thin air #the olive oil memes are giving me life #thank you internet stranger for telling me that there is no e at the end of smoliv

[nerdpoe]

Danny decides to render the Anti-Ecto acts useless. He goes a little Villain-y.

He uses his ghost abilities to get shit tons of ecto and dump them in the water supplies of large cities.

If everyone is Liminal, then the laws have to be revoked. Right?

...

...Right?

Meanwhile in an apartment in Metropolis, Clark and Lois stare at each other in shock as she hovers a solid three feet off the ground.

On her own.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #superman #lois lane #danny phantom #danny fenton #and yes #bruce does receive an emergency call from clark asking if having uh #fun times #with a human #would be enough to like contaminate said human #bruce is dealing with almost every single Gothamite suddenly materializing abilities #and using them to try to bypass notorious Gotham traffic #and accidentally creating whole new traffic areas #and he doesn't have time to deal with clark's awkward sex ed questions #“go ask your hologram father kal” #“but unless you've fucked every single person in Gotham AND Lois that's not what's happening”

[phoenixgreen]

I am not ok

#toh #I‘m back with the panel redraws #imma have a field day with all this new material #toh hunter #the owl house #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #toh s3 #toh s3 spoilers #toh thanks to them #belos #phillip wittebane #the owl house hunter #crying over flapjack #my art #dana terrace

[mechanicalinfection]

He gets a little quirky at night.

#art #digital art #fnaf #fnaf 3 #springtrap #he's so bbg guys #LIKES HDIWKBDKD #I TRIEDNMY BEST W NEW STYLE #I DONT THINK I PULLED IT OFF WELL BUT OH WELL #He gets a bit quirky ok leave him slone 💔 #hes a lil insane but like bbg #bbg material #trust #PLEASE HEAR ME OUT OKAY 💔 #HE'S JUST SO???? #pls 👉👈 #erhm #im going to die in a fire right now adiod #I'm bavk sgain i wsnt to take him home snd give him s bath #he needs a bath #like extremely #corpse bunny needs a bath #take the knife away from hjm #he'll committ several warcrimes

[asoulwithadream]

i know we're always on about how good taika waititi is at having eyes

but can we take a moment to appreciate how good rhys darby is at face???

#i'm not even going to include the new s2 material #because i don't think i'm ready to fully aknowledge that it exists yet #but it's going to get so much better #ofmd #our flag means death #taika waititi #rhys darby

[carolinanadeau]

"this female character is underdeveloped" TO YOU. I can read subtext and I know all about her backstory and her rich inner life. also she told me personally

#I honestly think that one of the most enriching and rewarding parts of writing fanfiction is getting to #fully flesh out and explore a character who gets some but not-quite-enough characterization in canon #unless the character is REALLY minor there are always so many threads to pull out and weave into something new #you can even deconstruct the marketing materials! oh this character is only described as 'beautiful'? wonder how she feels about that hmmm #my original post #writing #fanfic #I'm just really proud of what I've been able to do with Miss T. it's almost all right there in the script and lyrics if you'd only look!

[maxsix]

#idc if there is new material WE AS A SOCIETY MOVED ON FROM THIS TOO FAST #choi san #san #ateez #ateez gif #san gif #maxsixgif #that's the problem with kpop: it moves so fast #you've barely processed one era but they've already moved onto the next #i still have not processed Guerrilla era and we're two eras beyond that #the lighting on his face here was amazing though #one of his best styling eras for sure #From The Real MV shoot #i just randomly came across this again today