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Ten Things I Know About Screens After a Year of Pandemic

by Mauro Carbone Mauro Carbone is Distinguished Professor of Aesthetics at the Faculté de Philosophie of the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, and an Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Influenced by phenomenology, in particular by Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, his present researches focus on the contemporary screen experiences and...

Masks: The Face Between Bodies and Networks

Yiğit Soncul & Jussi Parikka This article was first published in Paletten (online) on April 28, 2020 and is reprinted here with permission. I With increasing intensity over the past year, an image has occupied the faces featured across media. From the Australian forest fires to the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic, a visual...

The Angel and the App: Viruses and New Technologies

By Dario Cecchi Dario Cecchi is a professor of philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome. This article initially appeared on Fata Morgana Web and is reprinted here with permission. Author’s Note Italy is the European country in which COVID-19 first started its spread and the one in which the number...

The Platformization of Everyday Life: Design, Privacy, and Dark Patterns

by Daniel Marques With the rise of social media and digital platforms over the last 10-15 years, privacy has become a hot topic of conversation among scholars, media outlets and the general population. Speaking through personal experience, I was struck with curiosity when I first came across the idea of "Privacy by Design." As...

The Burnout Generation Tidies Up

by Maureen Ryan In a well-timed bid for the attention of television audiences brimming with New Year’s resolve, Netflix released Tidying Up this January, a domestic advice program starring the Japanese organizational expert Marie Kondo, whose 2014 book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up topped bestseller lists. On each episode of Tidying Up, Kondo...

Desert Nativity: A Reflection on Frieda Knobloch’s Visit

Frieda Knobloch’s work exceeds disciplinary boundaries.  She is at once the botanist who retraced the steps of Aven Nelson, the creative writer who is exploring the Red Desert through a gruff character named Ed Ray, or the environmentalist who strongly senses the urgency of addressing global climate change.  Knobloch...

Space-making in the Humanities: Looking Behind the Mona Lisa

By Zach Finch In Frieda Knobloch’s recent C21 lecture, she discussed methods that would allow us to conceptualize and create new spaces in order to approach the discourse of climate change and the environment.  Her work attempts to break down binaries between human and environment (i.e. humans wrecked environment therefore...

Desert Nativity: A Reflection on Frieda Knobloch’s Visit

Frieda Knobloch’s work exceeds disciplinary boundaries.  She is at once the botanist who retraced the steps of Aven Nelson, the creative writer who is exploring the Red Desert through a gruff character named Ed Ray, or the environmentalist who strongly senses the urgency of addressing global climate change.  Knobloch...

Desert Nativity: A Reflection on Frieda Knobloch’s Visit

Frieda Knobloch’s work exceeds disciplinary boundaries.  She is at once the botanist who retraced the steps of Aven Nelson, the creative writer who is exploring the Red Desert through a gruff character named Ed Ray, or the environmentalist who strongly senses the urgency of addressing global climate change.  Knobloch...

Searching For Climate Justice

By Sean McLernon Global warming is terrifying for many people under the age of 30, and, as someone in that cohort who hopes to make it to old age, I’m a bit worried myself. Working as an environmental news reporter reminds me daily of the bleak long-term outlook. There’s no quick...

Lonely No More!

When the Walls Talked

By Laya Liebeseller Talking Walls marked the beginning of something new at C21. It was the first of what would become a series of gallery...

Lonely No More! in the Archive

By Eli Frank I began this summer’s Archive Fellowship ruminating on the historical intimacies between C21’s institutional history and my own research project. Both C21...

6.5 Minutes With… Keramet Reiter

Professor Keramet Reiter gives some detail about the consequences of solitary confinement, and begins to frame a longer discussion for thinking about changes in...

Robot Dogs Can Help Seniors Cope…

Author Sassafras Lowery Description In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors--one of the most vulnerable populations to the illness--are more isolated than ever before. Ageless Innovation,...

Decolonizing Extinction

Author Juno Salazar Parreñas Description In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan...

Marking Time

Author Nicole R. Fleetwood Description More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families...

Connecting, Humanizing, and Healing Through Music with Esteemed Violinist Vijay Gupta

Host Baktash Ahadi Description In this episode, we discuss loneliness and brokenness, and the power of music to be the catalyst for connection and healing. Vijay shares...

23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

Author Keramet Reiter Description Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day...

Animals’ Best Friends

Author Barbara J. King Description As people come to understand more about animals’ inner lives—the intricacies of their thoughts and the emotions that are expressed every day...

Flying Kites

Contributors THE STANFORD GRAPHIC NOVEL PROJECT 2018-2019: Candice Kim, Katherine Liu, Lily Nilipour, Sarah Shourd, Lucy Zhu, Peter DiCampo, Danial Shadmany, Nik Wesson, Elena Kamas,...