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Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters
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How to overcome the internetAs platforms constantly expect us to update and post, our status as 'artists' is often overlooked. The internet has become a world of appearances where aesthetics trumps ethics - it is more important to gain likes than to be right. Power and punishment are enacted via aesthetic judgements.With a light touch, On Screens asks serious questions about—and posits creative strategies in response to—this capitalised internet. Walsh, in particular, pays attention to the 'minor', often 'feminised', online affects—the like/heart/star of social media, the rage in outrage, celebrity envy, insta-influencing— that have such fundamental effects on our identities, our politics, our desires offline.Through a series of scintillating essays that ask - what is a mother online? how has the contract between the author and their work changed? The dangers of the 'cute' personality, how people prepare for their death online; Walsh shows that the aesthetics that keep us tethered to the internet are also the means by which we can subvert or even take it over.
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"Walsh's style is giddy with possibility ..."
"The problem isn't that Walsh...merely mimes professionals like Ngai; it's that the imitation game isn't fun ..."
"Some of Walsh's references are underdeveloped; others rely on a hefty level of prior reading ..."
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