(screenshot via sugarselfie.us)
If you enjoy obvious jokes about the way people interact with ubiquitous technological features, you’ll love sugarselfie.us, a new website that fights bad taste with worse: a “selfie generator” that places you, thanks to some low-fi techno-maneuvering, right there at the Kara Walker Domino Sugar Factory installation, alongside the boors amid the Blackamoors. “ITS [sic] LIKE YOU ARE REALLY THERE!!!!”
The dream of Warhol at its zenith — a neoliberal quagmire wherein appearance is always more important than agency. It’s a barely clever rejoinder to a banal phenomenon long since taken to its logical conclusion, but hey, give the people what they want deserve.
Good writing, Mostafa Heddaya. You nailed it nicely, “a neoliberal quagmire wherein appearance is always more important than agency”, indeed! I look forward to reading more of your writing.
goodness. well you sure nailed uber psuedo neoliberal white world. & i enjoyed it.