Heavy-Eyed Tyrants and Boring Machine Operators | Kailum Graves
In Heavy-Eyed Tyrants and Boring Machine Operators (2020), Kailum Graves montages both past and present heads of state and members of the Group of...
Carnal Politics: A Response to Dear Vern | Tra My Anderson
Corporeal, carnal, erotic—the body as a space in which politics are waged is an inevitable reality. In spite of every effort to dissociate belief...
Dear Vern | Janelle Rebel
In Dear Vern (2020), Janelle Rebel exposes the arbitrary nature of binaries within national politics through a feminist lens. The piece uses an archive...
I Voted | Meghan Kozal
In I Voted (2020), artist Megan Kozal uses embedded video clips to examine American news consumption, voter education, and voter apathy. Kozal’s minimalistic web...
Living in Between | Maryam Khaleghi Yazdi
Maryam Khaleghi Yazdi’s Living in Between (2019) represents the political, cultural, and racial barriers migrants face. Each illustration depicts an aspect of a migrant’s...
Backseat Moderating
It isn’t really my intention to get political in my Digital America column, because that kind of topic tends to almost immediately divide readers...
Cyberutopian Politics in the 21st Century
Cyberutopianism*—or the belief in the power of the Internet to serve as an emancipatory and even inherently democratic force—is a set of ideals impinged...
Knife Fight in the Garden of Comments and Criticism
The avenues of the internet are lined on either side by buildings—some of majesty, constructed by award-winning journalists, others busted and bruised. Click bait...