Julien Porquet/Posture
@julienporquet.bsky.social
https://julienposture.com/
https://julienposture.substack.com/
Illustrator & PhD candidate in anthropology, University of Cambridge
I study how people and machines look together and against each other. (he/him)
Visual culture|semiotics|STS
https://julienposture.substack.com/
Illustrator & PhD candidate in anthropology, University of Cambridge
I study how people and machines look together and against each other. (he/him)
Visual culture|semiotics|STS
Little academic milestone: this week I got my first ever citation in another paper!
And I couldn't be happier that it's about artists, creative labor and machine learning.
🎉📚
And I couldn't be happier that it's about artists, creative labor and machine learning.
🎉📚
April 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Little academic milestone: this week I got my first ever citation in another paper!
And I couldn't be happier that it's about artists, creative labor and machine learning.
🎉📚
And I couldn't be happier that it's about artists, creative labor and machine learning.
🎉📚
April 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
If you want to know more about the AI side of style transfer and how it aligns with capitalist extraction in the creative industry, take a look at our #chi2025 paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
If you want to know more about the AI side of style transfer and how it aligns with capitalist extraction in the creative industry, take a look at our #chi2025 paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
If this week has taught us anything, is that styles are never "just" styles.
They are at the core of our cultural, political and economic lives and how we think about, and do things with them has a tremendous impact on our lives.
(A real Miyazaki sketch to cleanse your feed.)
They are at the core of our cultural, political and economic lives and how we think about, and do things with them has a tremendous impact on our lives.
(A real Miyazaki sketch to cleanse your feed.)
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
If this week has taught us anything, is that styles are never "just" styles.
They are at the core of our cultural, political and economic lives and how we think about, and do things with them has a tremendous impact on our lives.
(A real Miyazaki sketch to cleanse your feed.)
They are at the core of our cultural, political and economic lives and how we think about, and do things with them has a tremendous impact on our lives.
(A real Miyazaki sketch to cleanse your feed.)
When the White House publishes this image, style becomes a weapon.
As it turns the dehumanizing labor of ICE into a cartoonish parody, the image distances us further from any empathy and precluding any potential revolt.
As it turns the dehumanizing labor of ICE into a cartoonish parody, the image distances us further from any empathy and precluding any potential revolt.
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
When the White House publishes this image, style becomes a weapon.
As it turns the dehumanizing labor of ICE into a cartoonish parody, the image distances us further from any empathy and precluding any potential revolt.
As it turns the dehumanizing labor of ICE into a cartoonish parody, the image distances us further from any empathy and precluding any potential revolt.
First off, it is not random that OpenAI decided to make an example of beloved animation studio Ghibli. Culturally, Ghibli stands for craft, integrity, and humane stories against Open AI corporate, mechanistic slop. Here, copying style = appropriating/displacing cultural value.
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
First off, it is not random that OpenAI decided to make an example of beloved animation studio Ghibli. Culturally, Ghibli stands for craft, integrity, and humane stories against Open AI corporate, mechanistic slop. Here, copying style = appropriating/displacing cultural value.
This week the world got Ghiblified, pointing once more that styles are more than mere surface, but essential parts of our cultural, political and economic lives.
My PhD is about the political economy of how humans and machines see style in the US illustration industry, and I have thoughts!
🧵1/
My PhD is about the political economy of how humans and machines see style in the US illustration industry, and I have thoughts!
🧵1/
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This week the world got Ghiblified, pointing once more that styles are more than mere surface, but essential parts of our cultural, political and economic lives.
My PhD is about the political economy of how humans and machines see style in the US illustration industry, and I have thoughts!
🧵1/
My PhD is about the political economy of how humans and machines see style in the US illustration industry, and I have thoughts!
🧵1/
I'm so excited to share our paper for #chi2025:
"Copying style, Extracting value: Illustrators' Perception of AI Style Transfer and its Impact on Creative Labor"
As an anthropologist, I'm delighted to be able to contribute to interdisciplinary conversations on AI and art!
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
"Copying style, Extracting value: Illustrators' Perception of AI Style Transfer and its Impact on Creative Labor"
As an anthropologist, I'm delighted to be able to contribute to interdisciplinary conversations on AI and art!
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
March 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm so excited to share our paper for #chi2025:
"Copying style, Extracting value: Illustrators' Perception of AI Style Transfer and its Impact on Creative Labor"
As an anthropologist, I'm delighted to be able to contribute to interdisciplinary conversations on AI and art!
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
"Copying style, Extracting value: Illustrators' Perception of AI Style Transfer and its Impact on Creative Labor"
As an anthropologist, I'm delighted to be able to contribute to interdisciplinary conversations on AI and art!
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
This is my last weekend before returning to Cambridge to write my PhD dissertation. Between me and the void stands coffee, pastries, books. But it's drawing all these things that has done the best job at alleviating my stress.
January 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is my last weekend before returning to Cambridge to write my PhD dissertation. Between me and the void stands coffee, pastries, books. But it's drawing all these things that has done the best job at alleviating my stress.