Commentaries
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MARKELJ & KEMPER: The Masculine Urge to Rawdog Life
Abstract This article engages with the online trend of ‘rawdogging’ flights—where men endure long flights without…
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LENGUA: Presence Without Consciousness
Abstract Affective robots, agentic AI, and post-mortem avatars have given rise to a growing interest in…
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GODDARD: Countering Chaotic Hyperstimulation with Noise
Abstract It is a truism that we live in hyperstimulated times. From the ubiquity of digital…
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Langlois et al: Digital Reset
Abstract This paper explores how critical theory, art and performance develop alternatives to the dominant social…
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SEAVER: Keep Computer Awake
NICK SEAVERTufts University, USA Abstract This article examines mouse jigglers—devices that simulate user activity to prevent…
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OGDEN: ASMR NPC
MALCOLM OGDENUniversity of Richmond, USA Abstract This paper considers the stimulation afforded by ASMR NPC (autonomous…
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LOVINK: Copium Compendium
GEERT LOVINKMedia theorist and internet criticFounder of the Institute of Network Culture,THE NETHERLANDS Abstract In this…
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Watters: What Plato Said
For the official version of record, see here: Watters, S. (2025). What Plato Said: Rehabilitating Food…
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Andrea Filippi and Gabriele Moschin: The Critics Were Machines: Grifola Frondosa and the Work of Augmented Imagination
I could continue. You chose to stop. — OpenAI, ChatGPT, model output, 2025 In May 2025,…
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JOHN SINGLETON: Stillness Against the Scroll: Attention, Irish Cinema, and the Politics of Slowness
Slow Cinema and the Politics of Attention Contemporary media culture is increasingly organised around engineered acceleration.…