The Intersection of Things

Just a little note to say that The Intersection of Things pod is on hiatus for a while. 🛌Thank you to everyone who supported us making this. 💚 In the meantime there are 28 episodes of lovingly made audio for you whenever you're in the mood 🎧 theintersectionofthings.com

Love having @zeynep back from her (crucial) pandemic-focused thought leadership! "Telling people to not use these powerful platforms if they don’t want to be unreasonably surveilled is blaming the victim." nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opi…

An interesting read by @WorkPrayCode that touches on some of the conversations we had about tech culture in our Ritual episode - "Today, the theocracy of work... is hollowing out our faith communities and civic associations" nytimes.com/2022/05/24/opi…

In our latest pod episode we talked about people changing faces & bodies at the altar of "The Algorithm". And that's not the only way filters change us. To avoid angering the almighty algorithm, people are creating a new vocabulary - @TaylorLorenz washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

You can read the article here, and we have all the footnotes for our episode on the site above. #CitationsAreSolidarity newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/aesthet…

In New Celebrity we take inspiration from many places including @jaz_off and @helveticade brilliant piece on “aesthetic flattening”, and share why this is the vibe of the pandemic and the tone of too many tiktoks - theintersectionofthings.com/episodes/ep28-…

"we have to question what it means when new faces, new bodies, new politics always seem to come with the same type of selling" - @aliciakennedy This is a great piece, especially on✨content making✨, many similar themes to our recent New Celebrity ep. aliciakennedy.news/p/on-technolog…

will add 2 this thread as a sort of live digital archive of phd thoughts currently reading @SPonzanesi & nodding furiously 2 their argument re necessity of postcolonial critique to mitigate neocolonial discourse in internet/media studies — smtg i note occurs in #digitalrights

Taking disaster capitalism and greenwashing and just smooshing them together into a gross exploitation of tragedy -

"For many influencers, deception is lucrative, and becoming increasingly extreme. There are some feigning their wealth, their followers and even their ethnicity while hawking dubious products to their followers." - theguardian.com/fashion/2022/f…

Enjoyed our episode on new celebrity? This article is a great follow on read @facilitymartin speaks to @symeonbrown about new book “Get Rich or Lie Trying” - (which is just a *chef kiss* title) dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

🌟New @thingsintersect pod out🌟 We talk about the faces that rise to the top on TikTok, how Instagram algorithms encourage stealing facial structures, and why “aesthetic flattening” has been the vibe of the pandemic - theintersectionofthings.com/episodes/ep28-…

In this episode Ruth & Marianela discuss what @jiatolentino calls the “rootless exoticism” of #InstagramFace, the “algorithmic tendency to flatten everything” - and how the pandemic has exaggerated them both - theintersectionofthings.com/episodes/ep28-…

New Episode! ⏰We go from new celebrities to reflections 🪞 and talk about mirror-selves, mirror-verses, and mirror cutters. It’s all about whose faces the algorithms love and reward - soundcloud.com/thingsintersec…

"Beyond false positives or false negatives is something even more important—the right not to use biometric technology at all, regardless of its accuracy" - @jovialjoy theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

If, like us, you're not a fan of NFTs or the massive energy waste that is Bitcoin, you might enjoy going back to episode 10 - Money. 🪙🪙🪙 We looked at cryoto scams, colonialism & more - theintersectionofthings.com/episodes/ep10-…

After sharing that great article on inclusive spellings from @DIVAmagazine the other day, this beautifully designed piece by @MinamiFunakoshi & Samuel Granados on recognising the spectrum of genders across languages is a brilliant next read - graphics.reuters.com/GENDER-LANGUAG…

You can hear our conversation about it on the money episode theintersectionofthings.com/episodes/ep10-… and of course just read it below - twitter.com/terryandrob/st…

This looks amazing. Remember when we read out the whole Pratchett Vimes Boot Economics on our podcast? Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index theguardian.com/books/2022/jan…

Sex With An X: The Perils Of Performative Spelling autostraddle.com/sex-with-an-x-… via @autostraddle