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How do myths evolve in the digital age?
Contemporary works remix folklore, internet culture, and speculative fiction to create new mythologies for unsettled times.
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Austintipede
Myth functions as a trans-cultural, pop-inflected narrative armature through which Ramakrishnan stages identity, sexuality, and gender as unstable, violently produced formations, reworking traditionally masculine symbolic systems from a metamorphic feminist position. Her accumulative, abject material practice—rooted in social relations and found substances with embedded “secret narratives”—mobilizes a postmodern bricolage and embodied indexicality to move viewers between visceral matter and a transcendent field of signification and narrative play.
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Le Nemesiache: Erupting Feminist Cosmologies
Myth and poesis are mobilized as feminist technologies of interruption that undo the “Ordered World” of separability, linear time, and bourgeois hetero-patriarchal reason, reframing Medea’s irreconcilable cosmologies as a critique of capitalist enclosure and North/South modernity. Le Nemesiache’s interdisciplinary praxis—psycho-fables, occupations, counter-festivals, and sibylline/amazonian figures—conjoins embodied memory, ecology, and transfeminist metamorphosis to “disenclose” suppressed knowledges and invent a new common metaphysics where art and political life co-produce planetary, nonbinary futures.
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Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Religious resurgence is framed as an evolutionary success within a media ecology dominated by repetition, where the Internet privatizes the political and privileges sovereign “freedom of faith” (ritual, commitment beyond justification) over institutional, evidentiary discourse associated with science and liberal-democratic deliberation. Fundamentalism appears as a post-Enlightenment, post-deconstructive politics of the letter—literal repetition aligned with reproduction—while digital video recasts revelation as the staged visualization of invisible code, making identity/originality a matter of belief and offering a technical, immanent model of immortality via endlessly repeatable loops.
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Untitled
Verifax-based repetition and appropriation (the hand-with-radio motif) mobilize Beat-era assemblage strategies to stage a meditation on mechanical reproduction, media ubiquity, and the way mass imagery scripts consciousness like a filmic sequence. By inserting pop, religious, and esoteric symbols into the radio’s frame, the work collapses sacred/profane and private/public registers into a cryptic, viewer-decoded semiotic field that doubles as West Coast countercultural critique.
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