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Imagining Otherwise Under Conditions of Impunity

ByRichelle SteynJan 2, 20266 mins

“Capitalism does not merely constrain change; it organises which forms of suffering matter, which legal rulings are enforced, and which crimes are indefinitely deferred. It functions as a selective enforcement regime, shielding actors embedded in military, financial, and diplomatic infrastructures from consequence.”

Dream Technologies and Ancestral Images: Reimagining Digital Art as Cultural Repair

ByRichelle SteynNov 25, 20257 mins

“Nice Aunties’ work hints at a future for digital art that is more human, more ritualised, and more ancestrally grounded. Cobb and Slattery provide the philosophical scaffolding; Khoi and San traditions offer the ethical and imaginal inheritance; dream technologies, fictional or real, show how images are medicine. What emerges is a powerful proposition: digital art can become a contemporary dream…

Timekeepers of the Anthropocene: Digital Art in the Grammar of Ancestral Time

ByRichelle SteynNov 24, 20254 mins

Tewame Tiyolicha Kawitl: Timekeepers of the Anthropocene (invites us) to rethink how we hold time, and how digital art might become a vessel for repairing its ruptures. The colonial and industrial eras (of the Anthropocene) imposed a linear, extractive temporality—one that measures productivity rather than reciprocity, acceleration rather than attunement. It is this regime of time .. that has destabilised…

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Ideas Too Dangerous to Share, Digital Censorship and Cultural Hegemony

ByRichelle SteynSep 13, 202411 mins
Antonio Gramsci developed the concept of cultural hegemony to describe how dominant classes maintain power, not solely through economic control, but by shaping culture and ideology. By framing the accepted norms, values, and beliefs, they secure consent from the public, even when these structures work against the public’s own interests. Gramsci’s insights remain deeply relevant, […]

The Yuga Labs Business Model & the 2024 Super Punk World Collection Wobble

ByRichelle SteynJun 23, 202422 mins
Yuga Labs and their Yuga Ecosystem is a start-up success story. Is this a USA-specific once-off, or is Yuga’s success based on sustainable web3 foundations that can inform start-ups in other parts of the globe? Let’s look at their business model.
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