9 1/2 EXEMPLARY THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS

Walsh, Joanna

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Title

9 1/2 EXEMPLARY THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS

Author(s)

Walsh, Joanna

Issue Date

2021-10-26

Keyword(s)

• emotional labor
• unpaid domestic work
• abjection
• online persona
• thought experiment

Abstract

Where is the face in interface? Where is the soft in ware? What is soft and where? What happens when a woman whose private acts of abjection (emotional labour, unpaid domestic work) that support—against her will—a political and economic status quo that perpetuates her situation, is offered a range of online platforms on which to screen her self? How does a woman in front of a screen begin to develop an online persona from which to perform this self? A number of thought experiments demonstrate (as demonstration is a screen mode) some of the available modes and their parameters.

Series/Report Name or Number

Media-N, vol. 17, issue 2

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/113434

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v17i2.775

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• Copyright 2021 Joanna Walsh
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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