joanne mcneil
@jomc
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books: Wrong Way (2023) and Lurking (2020)
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Joined December 2006
“Whatever pity I felt for the struggling robot was abstracted empathy for the actual person somewhere—maybe Finland, maybe the Philippines—who had to have been navigating it out of distress.” Joanne McNeil (@jomc) on robots and robo-taxis @nyreviewofarch
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Robots take to the roads—and clog the sidewalks.
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What Comes After Social Media? I’m giving a talk at the Philosophical Research Society library in LA on what’s changed since LURKING was published. learn about the past and future of the web, and alternatives to corporate online community. Nov 1st 5-7pm
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Join author Joanne McNeil for a presentation on the history of social media followed by a discussion on imagining new spaces online.
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What Comes After Social Media? I’m giving a talk at the Philosophical Research Society library in LA on what’s changed since LURKING was published. learn about the past and future of the web, and alternatives to corporate online community. Nov 1st 5-7pm
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Join author Joanne McNeil for a presentation on the history of social media followed by a discussion on imagining new spaces online.
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fwiw I have no idea how to find deep cuts anymore without cutout bins in stores that sell physical media. Files and metadata don’t glimmer with the same potential for me
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Still wild to me, as a person once obsessed both movies in 2004 (Come & See, bc JG Ballard mentioned it in an interview, Possession as the b-side to a random Bava on DVD I found in a Barnes & Noble cutout bin), that both have taken off the same way
uncs of film twitter: what are some movies that are canonical now but were basically unknown when we were coming up? like Come and See or Possession. inversely: what are some movies or filmmakers that seem to have fallen off? (Takashi Miike comes to mind)
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My latest in @FilmmakerMag: a profile of T.A.P.E. (Teach. Archive. Preserve. Exhibit.) and their incredible efforts in bringing museum-quality archival processes to the public. https://t.co/WpFPu2RBV0
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Joanne McNeil on how Los Angeles’s Whammy! is helping to preserve people’s VHS archives.
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I’m sure some of the people that make a living ruining email are fine, but 80% of the tech people I see here have this same terrible personality. It’s the combination of wanting to be in on the joke while also being completely blind to what’s actually risible about themselves
I am excited to announce that Arcarae has $2.5M in funding and I am finally hiring. Arcarae’s mission is to help humanity remember and unlock the power each individual holds within themself so they can bring into reality their unique, authentic expression of self without fear or
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It’s 100% this
@jomc think it's also the mindset we're taught, that the amount of money we are personally making is just barely enough to get by on no matter how big it is, and we look at living on less as an utter impossibility, thus anyone living on it must be in squalor
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it all comes back to people seeing poverty (in adulthood) as moral failing—a moral failing that couldn't possibly overlap with intellectual and creative skill or ambition
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it's nearly impossible for someone who makes six figures and up to understand how anyone gets by on half that or less. but that lower class includes most of the country! meanwhile virtually all journalism &culture comes from a sheltered pov that only sometimes gestures at empathy
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Confessions Of An Infomaniac, by Elizabeth M. Ferrarini. Sybex Computer Books, 1984.
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WRONG WAY (2023)
Waymo is a godsend for working parents. Need to hand off the baby between meetings? Put them in a Waymo and send them to your partner across town. Impossible before now. Really grateful we have this technology 🙏
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New from me in @FilmmakerMag on on EZTV: once a “parallel universe to Hollywood”—where even features could be made for $50–and its remarkably expansive video archive
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In 1986, ia Kamandalu showed up at the EZTV space in West Hollywood for a screening of video art by Doris Chase. People recognized her, even though it had been a few years since she was a dancer in…
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When I canvassed for Zohran a couple weeks ago in Bushwick an old Puerto Rican guy answered the door. I tried to tell him about Zohran in broken Spanish and he saw my flyer. “Oh that guy? He came here.”
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this @the_point_mag conversation with @jomc on Ballard & CONCRETE ISLAND is as close as you can get to having coffee with Joanne, by which i mean high praise
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No other writer has influenced me like JG Ballard. Years ago I read everything I could find and it forever changed the way I think about technology, civilization, sex, and the future. For this excellent series, I talked about the one novel of his that I’ve learned from the most
A new episode of Selected Novels, featuring @jomc on J.G. Ballard: https://t.co/l7ZRrwKoxL
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On the latest episode of Selected Novels, @JessSwoboda and Zach Fine talk to @jomc about J.G. Ballard’s “Concrete Island,” and how its mix of surreality and social criticism influenced both her fiction and criticism: https://t.co/l7ZRrwKoxL
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No other writer has influenced me like JG Ballard. Years ago I read everything I could find and it forever changed the way I think about technology, civilization, sex, and the future. For this excellent series, I talked about the one novel of his that I’ve learned from the most
A new episode of Selected Novels, featuring @jomc on J.G. Ballard: https://t.co/l7ZRrwKoxL
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