Class field trip to Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art @SchomburgCenter in Harlem,exploring the contributions of Black cultural production to the sociopolitical & creative histories & pre-histories of computation. Organized by @LegacyRussell & team
24 Sep: @LegacyRussell, author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, joins us to discuss her latest book BLACK MEME, exploring the āmemeā as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present. She'll be in conversation with Rene MatiÄ
Book here: lrb.me/7n3
"We must keep fighting for Breonna Taylor, and the authorship of her personhood as an individual with agency."
@LegacyRussell on the amplification of Breonna Taylor fandom, fetish, and visual commodification as it proliferated online internationally.
"While on the one hand [the All Eyes on Rafah viral AI image] may broaden a consciousness, on the other it aestheticizes a struggle for liberation and makes for quippy viral material to be exchanged." @LegacyRussellwired.com/story/dial-up-lega⦠via @nonlinearnotes@WIRED
The Internet Supercharged the Exploitation of Black Culture | @KailaPhilo | @newrepublic@LegacyRussell traces Americaās reliance onāand profit fromāBlack imagery, from the 1910s to the Dancing Baby meme
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"When you asked, whatās an early meme I remember, for me coming into awareness of lynching postcards was that nascent memory. The very idea that this was something that could exist as a material." -- @LegacyRussellwired.com/story/dial-up-legaā¦
Writer and curator @LegacyRussell joins Kate Wolf on this week's #LARBRadioHour to discuss her new book, "Black Meme," which theorizes the history of viral images of Blackness in America from the dawn of the 20th century to the present. lareviewofbooks.org/av/legacā¦
OUT TODAY! š„
BLACK MEME by @LegacyRussell, author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the āmemeā as mapped to Black visual culture.
"You will be galvanized by her analytic brilliance & visceral eloquence." - Margo Jefferson.
Order here: versobooks.com/products/2751ā¦
š§Spectators and Witnessesš§
Throughout the evolution of the digital age, cultural production and dispossession have formed two sides of the same coin.
@LegacyRussell and Fred Moten join @eleanorkpenny to discuss data, the middle passage, and blackness as transmission.
Out May 7, BLACK MEME by Legacy Russell, author of groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the āmemeā as mapped to Black visual culture.
"You will be galvanized by @LegacyRussell's analytic brilliance & visceral eloquence." - Margo Jefferson.
Pre-order: versobooks.com/products/2751ā¦
I am so so excited that @LegacyRussell's Black Meme is finally coming out! I've been waiting for that book for years now. I can't wait to read it, engage with it, cite it. God.
On the literary side, this issue includes fiction by E. De Zulueta, Ćngel Bonomini, and Diane Williams; poetry by Richard Siken and Bridget Talone; and an essay by @LegacyRussell from her forthcoming book BLACK MEME. Plus, a comic by Manon Debaye and a portfolio by Pacita Abad.