Hito Steyerl on Why the Metaverse Has Already Failed
The Art Angle
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Is Mastodon a Good Idea?
I was thinking about these two works in tandem because they're both, I think one of the prominent examples of you foregrounding nature as a subject matter. Is that somehow folding into the concern and is that what sort of bringing them forward as protagonists? But also in both cases, the relationship of nature to technology, right? What kind of interaction can one think of that's not also governed by humans, for example? I have this fictional device in animal spirits whereby James Bridal invents a device where animals and machine learning tools can talk to one another directly without the interference of humans,. So I mean, there's a lot of things to think about in that respect, also the connection of
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