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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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More Human Than Human: 5 Blade Runner Replicants Who Crossed Into Humanity

ByRichelle SteynJul 29, 20259 mins
In the spirit of Re-enchant, these characters invite us to reconsider what it means to be fully alive: not just to function or survive, but to seek meaning, choose dignity, and act with soul.

Designing a Regenerative Cultural Economy

ByRichelle SteynJun 23, 202516 mins
“When values-aligned actors begin to acquire digital works from the Art Stoke Commons ecosystem, they don’t just support individual artists – they validate a new logic of cultural production. Each successful Hive becomes a proof-of-concept. Each replication, a new node in a growing network of islands of coherence. If it works in South Africa where the wounds of inequality and the hunger for cultural healing are deep, it can serve as a blueprint for global cultural resurgence in the digital age.”

Why do People Collect NFTs?

ByRichelle SteynAug 12, 20234 mins
People have varying motivations for collecting NFTs. Some may see the value in owning digital assets, while others may prefer traditional physical collectibles. As the NFT space continues to evolve, ongoing research will shed more light on the intricacies of NFT collecting behavior and motivations.
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