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Essayistic, associative cultural analysis. I enjoy the work of Hito Steyerl. It’s relatable and fast. I aspire to this mode of address. For my undergraduate I did comparative literature and art; concerned with the camera facing post-colonial subject, how the camera is a tool which creates new narratives. [How would you approach a close reading of your own work:] I would probably mimic Hito too much; [Steve suggests that you shouldn’t be afraid of the voice of the essayist (the voice of informed opinion) which also involves some engagement with style, and which is rhetorical (the aim of rhetoric is to persuade and convince).] Previously concerned with the politics of digital images; issues of the post-colonial gaze; I did this for undergrad and was devoid class analysis. Considered ghost writing and the labour involved. [S: re: class analysis and issue of post-digital labour. S recommends Digital Labour, the Internet as Playground and Factory by Trebor Scholtz and talk to the 2nd years in Xpub (Bo, Pedro, Rita) who are making work that deals with issues of digital labour (some of the 2nd year Xpubs are making a forensic analysis of their own data use – understanding each tiny transaction as a unit of ‘labour’), also check out The Pervasive Labour Union zine http://networkcultures.org/entreprecariat/pervasive-labour-union-zine-11/ and the institute of network cultures:http://networkcultures.org as a source for other material to research].