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On Screens

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  • On Screens on Hardback by Joanna Walsh
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As platforms constantly expect us to update and post, our status as 'artists' is often overlooked. The internet has become a world of appearances where aesthetics trumps ethics - it is more important to gain likes than to be right. Power and punishment are enacted via aesthetic judgements. With a light touch, On Screens asks serious questions about-and posits creative strategies in response to-this capitalised internet. Walsh, in particular, pays attention to the 'minor', often 'feminised', online affects-the like/heart/star of social media, the rage in outrage, celebrity envy, insta-influencing- that have such fundamental effects on our identities, our politics, our desires offline. Through a series of scintillating essays that ask - what is a mother online? how has the contract between the author and their work changed? The dangers of the 'cute' personality, how people prepare for their death online - Walsh shows that the aesthetics that keep us tethered to the internet are also the means by which we can subvert or even take it over.

Author Biography:

Joanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer for print, digital and performance. The author of seven books, including Hotel, Vertigo, Worlds from the Word's End and Break*up she also works as a critic, editor, teacher and arts activist. She is a UK Arts Foundation fellow, and the recipient of the Markievicz Award in the Republic of Ireland. She founded and ran #readwomen (2014-18), described by the New York Times as "a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers" and currently runs @noentry_arts.
Release date NZ
February 1st, 2025
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Pages
192
ISBN-13
9781839765391
Product ID
38188440

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