PeterSebastianChesney Annotations

Open Analytic

Saturday, December 15, 2018 - 1:59pm

This work fits nicely into anti-fascist surveillance discourse. I can see how you've reappropriated the platforms (Youtube, the Internet, etc.) they depend on. Were I to recognize any of these people as Facebook friends or whatever, now I would know for sure I have to break off those conenctions. Thus far, I don't see much in the way of an analytic beyond exposé. I recommend you take a look at the arguments presented by the likes of Joan Donovan at Data & Society (a Harvard think tank). She and her team (and patrons) have pushed for a return to the NAACP's old "dignified silence" tactic. This means media blackout for White Supremacist and White Nationalist groups because they don't deserve the free publicity. Your work could speak to this tension between exposure and silence, but the images need to do something more. What might photoshop or juxtaposition add to this approach? If you found the names of these RAM people and their sponsors, would you be comfortable stamping the images with that data. You could also show imagery of them being respectable in the jobs they work when not protesting.

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