User:Aitantv/Hito Steyerl (2014) Proxy Politics: Signal and Noise

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Relational Photography

• "So what are the policies already in place that define the separation of noise from information, or that even define noise and information as such in the first place? Who or what decides what the camera will “see”? How is it being done? By whom or what? And why is this even important?"

The Penis Problem

• "It is no coincidence that Facebook is called Facebook and not Buttbook, because you can’t have any butts on Facebook."

Proxy Armies

• "Bot armies are celebrity militias, wildly jump-cutting between glamour, sectarianism, porn, corruption, and conservative religious ideologies."

Blockchain

• "Blockchain governance seems to fulfill hopes for a new social contract. “Decentralized Autonomous Organizations” would record and store transactions in blockchains akin to the one used to run and validate bitcoin. But those public digital ledgers could equally encode votes or laws. Take for instance bitcongress, which is in the process of developing a decentralized voting and legislation system. While this could be a model to restore accountability and circumvent power monopolies, it above all means that social rules hardwired with technology emerge as Leviathan 2.0:"
• "Even though this is a decentralized process which no single entity at the top controls, it doesn’t necessarily mean no one controls it. Just like smartphone photography, it needs to be told how to work: by a multitude of conflicting interests."
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