"This is a problem that cannot really be solved using a computer itself. This is something that humans have to discuss and ultimately decide on...This is a conversation that all of society has to engage in."
"What if, instead, we flipped the script and start with the present day and dig further and further backwards in time...see all of these tropes and morphologies and hopes and dreams recurring and echoing as we go further and further back into history?"
"I really enjoyed adopting this position of the medium, where I was searching for these voices that had been forgotten or erased from history...[I became] the one who would transmit these voices to others."
"I really enjoyed adopting this position of the medium, where I was searching for these voices that had been forgotten or erased from history...[I became] the one who would transmit these voices to others."
"The face is a real thing. It actually matters...It has this massive amount of functional importance in our lives. It's also the site of enormous amounts of status...our face becomes a representative of who we are in some essential way."
"Whether you play video games or you don't, they are part of a cultural transformation of the way we think, the way we desire, the way we empathize, the way we work, the way we play."
"A book that can show you how the distinct operations, both the form and the content of particular comics, speak to much wider structures of power, identity politics, and social reality...that, to me, is a strong study."
"In so many circumstances, violence on the part of dominant powers and dominant people is allowed to take place because inequalities are allowed to exist and persist...In order to struggle for the eradication of violence, it needs to go hand in hand with the eradication of inequality."
"This goes back to why Arendt argued that we needed 'public' and 'private.' The 'private' is kind of a refuge from politics. Even though politics is a good thing, you don't want to be in it and doing it all the time because that's exhausting."
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Interviewing authors of Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Philosophy. See what they're reading at www.tinapp.org