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Museum Fatigue Reads, May 17, 2014

May 16, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

Diagrams in Anthropology: Lines and Interactions Utopian Origins of Restroom Symbols The Special Obligations of Tenured Faculty After 25 Years Of Amnesia, Remembering A Forgotten Tiananmen Young Chinese Maoists Set Up “Hippy” Commune Mao’s Little Red Book: A Global History (Book) 为什么会没有中国队长？(Why Don’t We Have a Captain America?) The Search for General Tso – Trailer from Wicked Delicate Films on Vimeo. Marxism and the Critique of Value (Book) Wages for Facebook The Sad, Slow Death of America’s Retail Workforce The Postcapital Economy […]

Categories: Museum Fatigue Reads • Tags: cinema, diagrams, Facebook, food, General Tso, Historical Films, Karl Marx, labor, Logistics, Mao, Mars, nostalgia, symbols, Tenured Faculty, value, video games

Museum Fatigue Reads, March 22, 2014

March 22, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

Social media offers an easy and satisfying way to quickly share interesting information with friends, students and colleagues. When I first joined Facebook, for example, I loved the fact that it was a passive way to post things without the temptation to impose myself on the inboxes of others. Read something interesting. Post. Someone likes it. They read it. Share. Frictionless joy all around. As the accretion of shares grown over years, however, finding an old post can be frustrating. […]

Categories: Museum Fatigue Reads • Tags: Facebook, high pants, Laura Croft, Michel Foucault, North Korea, selfie, Target, Umberto Eco, unions, value, video games, 打鬼子

Facebook’s Tiers of Selling Your Information

January 28, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

“If you aren’t paying for the product, you’re the product” never really made much concrete sense until this morning. The folks over at Boing Boing posted an image from @TheBakeryLDN illustrating what companies know when customers login to their services via Facebook. I suppose much of this could be expected, I posted about the increasingly insistent and irritating way that Facebook tells me it wants my data a few months ago (“The Facebook Database Must Be Fed”) complete with Little […]

Categories: Bodies, Privacy, Surveillance • Tags: digital double, Facebook, Privacy, Social Media

The Facebook Database Must Be Fed

May 23, 2013 by Museum Fatigue

Most people around at the dawn of the public Internet might remember the brief period when important webpage addresses circulated by word of mouth, in emails among friends, and were even published in books. Back in 1994, for example, I remember buying a telephone book-sized tome hundreds of pages thick, packed with URLs broken down by type. I’d look in the book’s index, find what I wanted, and then type the unwieldy URL into the browser. Viola! Then came search engines— Yahoo!, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves!, Google and […]

Categories: Discipline, Internet, Random Reflections, Surveillance • Tags: Database, digital double, Facebook, internet, social web, technology

China’s Facebook disconnect–The great dark space

December 14, 2010 by Museum Fatigue

A friend of mine just posted a link on Facebook to a very interesting image that is also beautiful to look at. It is a visualization of Facebook friend data–ten million Facebook friend pairs, to be exact. Mapped geographically against a black background the pairs create a striking image. The image’s creator, Paul Butler, a Facebook employee explains on a Facebook note that he created the image in an effort to map the “locality of friendship.” On one level it is […]

Categories: Random Reflections • Tags: China, Facebook, internet