Two: The girl is a consumer category that can’t be delinked from capital. This stems from Tiqqun’s contentious Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl (1999), a text that was such a horror of gender that its English-language tr…If the position of girl online is involuntary, does that make all of us its victims? Hatred of the girl mistakes girlification for consumer culture itself: the admittedly well-founded paranoia that any remaining selfhood has been scraped ou…
Tiqqun
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Tiqqun is a French collective known for their provocative 1999 text *Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl*, which theorizes how consumer culture and capital colonize subjectivity—particularly feminine identity—by making "girlification" inseparable from market logic. The course readings invoke Tiqqun to frame contemporary concerns about algorithmic control and data extraction as extensions of this older problem of the subject being scraped clean for commodification, asking whether the gendered position of "the girl" online is a uniquely digital phenomenon or a capitalist one that platforms have simply intensified and made computational.
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This course examines whether artists employing machine learning, generative algorithms, predictive models, and other technics–tools of what Deleuze called “the Societies of Control”– can make art that is evocative, powerful, critical, perha…Planetary computation: platform, stack, model, machine; Charles Stross’ “very slow AIs” to “imperceptible algorithmic value extraction devices”; social, inducement, walled gardens, and yield farms; Trapwire, Predpol, Palantir, and other “pe…
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