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Notes Day 3
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I feel like Beyonce in front of the fan
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the price of the pink elephant in the room
on the real housewives of beverly hills > the gossip narrative of a couple separated after kyle and morgan’s lesbian relationship (rumoured)
hybrid narration driven by ambiguity and anticipation - framing desire as lack
ambiguity, lack of knowledge, authenticity (always something missing, what is real?)
attracting queer, though not alienating straight audiences (thinking of revenue)
analysis showing: most accounts on tiktok are celebrity gossip accounts - forensic fandom
The broadcasters themselves see these narratives as a continuation of the reality tv show, always circulating
consolidating transmedia narratives across platforms
femcel resentment and girl optimism
digital hall of mirrors, nihilistic anti-politics - vampire anti feminism (essay 2025, other authors, [did not catch name]) (Banet-Weiser and Kay)
two kinds of femcels online - femcels - girl theory
They share the weird, sad, office girl - sharing the vibe but diverge in resolutions
post-feminism after Lean In - self-optimising, entrepreneurial - exhausted from unrealised / disappointment - inertia
girl theory showing that feminism is also a set of cultural practices - but are also dependent on platform economy, absorbed by them and not by intellectually richer contexts that could develop it
how can a popular feminism be done around critique and hope?
panel conversation
why give attention to such topics?
to move away from rage baiting which is what it is mostly being done now
to show these ideologies aren’t exceptional and they around us already - the misogyny is here already - not an extreme radicalisation
to research how do these narratives represent realit(ies)
to understand why queer experiences are being exploited in reality tv and online
niche communities hold power, hidden, talk about them they aren’t as invisible, their power is reduced
academia critique could be more empathetic, fold back people, bring them back through meaningful conversation
final question: what do we want to belong to?
Girl Theory on stage, it is absolutely great!
**goodbye poverty jetset panel **
shared visions new european coop
on commoning initiatives: most of the times we are redistributing poverty, scarcity, new models are needed
the cooperative in itself is not enough
artit cooperation model: acorp - model in colorado in the us, a type of limited liability company, founded by yancey strickler, a rebranding of the coop model? better capitalism for artists? this rebranding also works?
why are we playing the game in the terms of the platform? which new games can we build?
where can we build as artist run media?
issue of speculative artist-run media, playing with individuation, self-owning individuals - but we need something that intervenes outside of the “me” - maybe it is about not doing, to refuse, instead of contributing aesthetically (in the hopes of being “discovered)
how to react to an attack on the social? to react to platformised models we need economy, to be stable is expensive. the important debate: how to deal with an alternative that is able to counter attack? how to be invisible and visible when needed? fascist tech aims to make us invisible
struggle tactical / structural - infrastructures that last