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Tag Archives: technology
(Contestation of Statements) The US Holocaust Memorial Museum & The Scholars’ Petition
Who is a Nazi? What is a concentration camp? The politicians have done their damage throwing Holocaust bombs at each other, leaving the rest of us involved professionally in this line of inquiry to sort through and volatilize further the … Continue reading
#Never Again & Other Holocaust Objects Only Addle
Holocaust objects are widely recognizable and shared objects that convey Holocaust memory and the trauma that Holocaust memory carries. As old technologies, archaic today, they used to set that memory in stone. Examples include iconic photographs, historical sites, monuments, novels … Continue reading
(Relic) Amos Oz (Hand)
This photograph posted on Twitter by his daughter, Fania Oz-Salzberger, of Amos Oz’s hand before, at, or just after the moment of his passing is both deeply touching and very odd. A frozen photographic image, it is not unlike a … Continue reading
Digital Judaism (Lex Rofeberg)
I really liked this piece which I found here online about digital Judasim and Lex has given me kind permission to post it in full here. Lex is a rabbinical student at ALEPH, about which you can find more here. … Continue reading
Trump Campaign (This Recent Iteration of White Nationalism & Anti-Semitism Began With Him At Twitter)
At home and coursing across the internet of things (that network of devices and other forms of connective hardware), it is easy to trace back this current iteration of white nationalism and what seems like an almost sudden appearance into … Continue reading
Posthuman (Michal Rovner) Evolution
Michal Rover’s latest show at Pace, Evolution, is hardcore posthuman. Viewed from the chilly distance of a desert, the human is seen reproduced and submerged in a collective mass of de-realized figures on the move going nowhere, submerged in technology, across … Continue reading
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Death Of Alexa
I am ambivalent about this act. On the one hand, it’s a destructive act directed at a machine that has been purposefully gendered as female. It also feels like something of an execution. On the other hand, it has become … Continue reading
