Each week(ish), the Variable West team shares what’s on our reading and watching list.
December 7, 2023: Amelia Rina
- “Axolotl” by Julio Cortázar
- “This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI” by Melissa Heikkilä on MIT Technology Review
- “The race to optimize grief” by Mihika Agarwal on Vox
Image: STEPHANIE ARNETT/MITTR | REIJKSMUSEUM, ENVATO
November 17, 2023: Amelia Rina
- Gut Feminism by Elizabeth A. Wilson
- “The Sphere and our ‘Immersion’ Complex” by Jackson Arn in The New Yorker
- “Joy Buolamwini: ‘We’re giving AI companies a free pass’” by Melissa Heikkilä in MIT Technology Review
November 9, 2023: Ella Ray
- The Shadow of the West (1983), a film by Edward Said, dir. Geoff Dunlop
- “Memetic Survelliance of Black Women” by Ashley Odilia Armand in The Media Manipulation Casebook
- Dereliction by Gabrielle Octavia Rucker
October 26, 2023: Amelia Rina
- “How to fix the Internet” by Katie Notopoulos in MIT Tech Review
- “How to review art as a feminist and other speculative intents” by Amy Fung in Track Changes
- “Understanding the parallel scandals happening right now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art” by Amelia Marran-Baden on Instagram Reels
October 19, 2023: Ella Ray
- “THING, the revolutionary magazine that chronicled the birth of Chicago’s queer, Black club culture“ by DeForrest Brown Jr. in Document Journal
- “Moving Towards Home” by June Jordan
- “Locating the Poetics of Collage in Blondell Cummings’s ‘Chicken Soup’” by Daniella Brito in ON MIND