Julien Porquet/Posture
julienporquet.bsky.social
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
Great! Im looking forward to it.
September 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This historical survey offers interesting keys to understand the current debates around images, style, intellectual property and automation, for example as they took shape in the #ghiblification of everything by ChatGPT a few months ago.

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How to do things with style: A pragmatic history of style as a site for debates about authorship, commodification and technological reproducibility | Intellect
While students desperately ask how to find it, educators deem it superficial; at times, a sign of artistic personality, it simultaneously indexes market niches; individual property of the artist, it a...
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September 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
On the other hand, the paper addresses a theoretical blind spot of Art History which has long focused on style as a normative category to be defined and refined and left under theorized the pragmatics of style, i.e. what people do with the concept to control and regulate the social life of artworks.
September 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I argue that this pragmatic history of style sheds light on two blind spots. On the one hand, an ethnographic blind spot was created by the illustrators themselves in their ‘theoretical turn’, leaving style to mere commercialism and framing it as the antithesis of artistry.
September 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It analyzes the role of #style at three moments in history, the emergence of copyright laws, the Great Depression, and the rise of generative AI to show how the visible relation between an artist and their work has constantly been debated, reformed and morphed in various contexts.
September 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Oh this is exciting, thanks for sharing!
August 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Thank you Florian!
April 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM