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Roland Meyer
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Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
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As on the other site, I'm going to collect my longer threads about AI image synthesis and »platform realism« in one meta-thread, mainly to keep an overview for myself. So this is where we start ...
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With each update, tools like Midjourney promise us more »realistic« representations – but the »reality« these images represent has often little to do with the one we live in. Rather, they are best described as »Platform Realism,« a second-order aesthetic of generic images. A thread ...
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New publication on @ipragmatics.bsky.social, out now and available open access:

My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
Presentism as a digital language ideology in generative AI discourse
This paper gives a critical discourse-analytical account of presentism as a digital language ideology. It outlines how this ahistorical understanding of sociotechnical change centering the here-and-no...
benjamins.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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I have found it: the most ‘80s-Ass Book Cover of All Time
January 12, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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On the new episode of "Historians & Their Histories," Thomas Lecaque tells us about his current book project on holy war rhetoric in colonial America. Listen on podcast streaming services or the MHS website: www.masshist.org/podcast/hath...
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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display - space for digital practice, soft opening: 10–15 November 2025, NODE Forum for digital art, right in the heart of Frankfurt.
nodeforum.org/activities/c...
📍 display, Berliner Str. 60, 60311 Frankfurt am Main

www.tiktok.com/@iintima/vid...
display - new space for digital practice in Frankfurt am Main · soft opening, 10–15 November 2025 · #NODE Forum for Digital Art · #nodeforum
TikTok video by igor štromajer
www.tiktok.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Eine Rede, die geschrieben, aber nur zu zwei Dritteln gehalten werden konnte: Abdruck in der Dienstagsausgabe der F.A.Z.
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Immer wieder ultranervig noch einen Bereich zu finden, in dem alle Google Image Resultate aus Pinterest Links zu AI Slop bestehen.
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Himmel? We got Himmel at home office
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Kleenex - "Hedi's Head" (1978)
YouTube video by Kill Rock Stars
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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restwärme nutzen, aber als lebensprinzip
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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beautiful illustration of what Fields & Fields (2012) call race-racism evasion: is it racism (DOL explicitly promoting white nationalism) or is it race (how silly of DOL to not capture the rich diversity of the US workforce)?
As you may know, the US Department of Labor is posting White Christian Nationalist, fascist-style AI #slopaganda for months now. Or, as the Washington Post puts it: «The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the diversity of the country’s workforce …»
Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce
The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the country’s diversity and is sending messages that feel exclusionary.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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KI klingt nach Zukunft – aber sie lebt von menschlicher, unsichtbarer Arbeit. Ich habe für @freitag.de mit @geoplace.bsky.social über sein Buch „Feeding the Machine“ gesprochen – und darüber, was KI wirklich kostet. Leseempfehlung für alle, die hinter die Kulissen der "KI-Unternehmen" schauen wollen
„Die Arbeitsbedingungen sind brutal“: Über die geheimen Malocher hinter ChatGPT
Hinter jedem KI-Bild steckt Handarbeit: Menschen in Kenia, Indien oder auf den Philippinen schuften stundenlang für Hungerlöhne, um Maschinen klüger zu machen. Im Gespräch enthüllt Mark Graham die uns...
www.freitag.de
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Slopaganda is unfortunately a useful neologism here
As you may know, the US Department of Labor is posting White Christian Nationalist, fascist-style AI #slopaganda for months now. Or, as the Washington Post puts it: «The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the diversity of the country’s workforce …»
Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce
The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the country’s diversity and is sending messages that feel exclusionary.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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💥New from me in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past bu...
jacobin.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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This seems significant.

"U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman."
Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune
Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?
fortune.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Heute in einer Woche an der Uni Zürich – bin schon sehr gespannt und freue mich auf Mortens Vorlesung zu «Faschismustheorie und Gesellschaftskritik»!
Kommenden Montag probiere ich in der Ringvorlesung Kulturanalyse jetzt! (moderiert von @bildoperationen.bsky.social) aus, ob der histor. Blick nicht auf den Faschismus sondern auf das Nachdenken über den Faschismus hilfreich für die Gegenwartsanalyse ist – ich freue mich auf die Diskussionen.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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every time one opens the Times, you expect psychic damage.

but this? this is an assault on the frontal cortex
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Leave it to a a handful of Senate Democrats to cave in a moment where they held actual political power, leverage, had momentum, when the base finally felt something akin of hope and excitement again. Truly stunning.
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day! Don’t forget to smash your clocks!
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Passenderweise sehe ich gerade, dass mein Beitrag über "Arier, Aliens & Atlantis: Archäologische #Wissenschaftskommunikation zwischen Popkultur & #Ideologie" inzwischen auch bei @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de online nachgeschaut & -gehört werden kann:

lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/antike_im_ze...
Arier, Aliens und Atlantis: Archäologische Wissenschaftskommunikation zwischen Popkultur und Ideologie | L.I.S.A. WISSENSCHAFTSPORTAL GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG
Wie oft denken Sie an das Römische Reich? Warum hat Mark Zuckerberg eine Skulptur seiner Ehefrau im Garten aufgestellt? Was war das für ein vermeintlich „römischer Gruß“, mit dem Elon Musk für Aufregu...
lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de
November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Die Volksinitiative #RechtaufdigitaleIntegrität trifft den aktuellen Zeitgeist. In der Romandie ein voller Erfolg...nun stimmt der Kanton Zürich am 30. November darüber ab.

Es zeigt sich: Welsche Digitalromantik kollidiert hier mit Deutschschweizer Sparmentalität...

www.republik.ch/2025/11/10/d...
Der Traum von der digitalen Unversehrtheit
In Zürich kommt zur Abstimmung, was in der Westschweiz schon gilt: die digitale Integrität.
www.republik.ch
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Das Geld muss raus aus der Politik.

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Bei 7 von 8 der Dems, die heute kapituliert haben, ist bekannt, dass sie von Spendenvereinigungen (PAC) aus der Luftfahrtbranche unterstützt wurden...

Glaube keiner, es ginge um hungernde Menschen oder "Staatsräson". Nein, ganz und gar nicht.
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Dieser Neoliberale Corporate Null-Sprech ist so eine Pest.
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
As you may know, the US Department of Labor is posting White Christian Nationalist, fascist-style AI #slopaganda for months now. Or, as the Washington Post puts it: «The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the diversity of the country’s workforce …»
Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce
The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the country’s diversity and is sending messages that feel exclusionary.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM