BackTalk — aCCeSsions

BackTalk

On a bi-monthly basis, the journal’s editorial board shares a “playlist” of five links that speak to interests within and beyond the publication’s thematic.

5 Lynn Maliszewski

Release from Quarantine

This is what slowing down and sinking in and moving on feels/looks/sounds like.

4 Shehab Awad

Lessons from the internet

“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.” Rafiki

3 Lisa Long

Radial Systems

John Berger once said in his book About Looking (1980), memory is a situation of radial character. It is not linear, but instead a convergence of associations, processes, and stimuli, simultaneously coming together and radiating outward. Hence, memory is transformed in a moment between what was and is, between reception and transmission.

2 Julie Niemi

Where I have been is where you might go

There is no map for the digital, but a web that contracts and extracts, all at once somewhere, everywhere, all nowhere and somehow still in between.

1 Lola Martinez

Waterproof

At the epipelagic zone, waters elemental function appears as the most destructive nature towards hardware. Liquid materials potential deadly interactions with technologies can erode utilitarian functions: as laptops and harddrives lost to liquid damage lose all of their capabilities to retrieve and store data or act as portals to access and circulate information. Yet, could a shift, from perceptible land to intangible sea serve for a media analysis for hardwares that exist in aquatic economies of tropicality? Could a flow towards water allow for an alternative functionalization of hardwares inhabiting communities surrounded by bodies of water?