brendan coke

@brendancoke14.bsky.social

media & visual culture(s) | critical theories | screenwriting | direction @pharmakon | media & news | ex prop-boy now flying high | busy disentangling the gordian knot of one's life ["use a sword" they say..] anything else? design theory & history darling.

The Guardian. India’s Rahul Gandhi briefly detained as cockroach protests rock Delhi. Indian police briefly detained the opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, during protests calling for the resignation of Narendra Modi in solidarity with the new www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

India’s Rahul Gandhi briefly detained as cockroach protests rock Delhi

Opposition leader taken away after accusing Narendra Modi of ‘destroying the future of India’s youth’

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Information, Communication & Society. #OutNow in #iCS How are self, identity, and personhood shaped by personalization algorithms? Making It Personal by Tanya Kant offers multifaceted insights grounded in qualitative data and supported by sharp historical and discursive analysis.

Information, Communication & Society@icsjournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

#OutNow in #iCS How are self, identity, and personhood shaped by personalization algorithms? Making It Personal by Tanya Kant offers multifaceted insights grounded in qualitative data and supported by sharp historical and discursive analysis. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Information, Communication & Society. #OutNow in #iCS Focusing on this emerging archetype that the author terms ‘Masculine Optimization Influencers’ , this paper employs Sara Ahmed’s concept of ‘affective economies’ to excavate the affective dimensions that characterize this cohort’s content.

Information, Communication & Society@icsjournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

#OutNow in #iCS Focusing on this emerging archetype that the author terms ‘Masculine Optimization Influencers’ , this paper employs Sara Ahmed’s concept of ‘affective economies’ to excavate the affective dimensions that characterize this cohort’s content. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Information, Communication & Society. #OutNow in #iCS This article utilizes dimensions of ‘hybrid space,’ including access, agency, and awareness, as a framework to evaluate the politics of AI in smart cities from a disability perspective.

Information, Communication & Society@icsjournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

#OutNow in #iCS This article utilizes dimensions of ‘hybrid space,’ including access, agency, and awareness, as a framework to evaluate the politics of AI in smart cities from a disability perspective. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Alan Rusbridger. Farage’s close associate Posh George has written a book called How to Launder Money. Even the late Ronnie Biggs never had the imagination to pen a book entitled “How to Rob Trains”. The stink off Reforn’s funding is overpowering.

Alan Rusbridger@arusbridger.bsky.social · 3w ago

Farage’s close associate Posh George has written a book called How to Launder Money. Even the late Ronnie Biggs never had the imagination to pen a book entitled “How to Rob Trains”. The stink off Reforn’s funding is overpowering app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/74154/...

Dominic Minghella [reposted by alan lester]. The BBC, intimidated and infiltrated under the Tories, lost its guts and its mojo. The political assault combined editorial attack with a critique of the licence fee as poor value (which it isn't) and as 'regressive' -

DDominic Minghella@dminghella.bsky.social · 3w ago

The BBC, intimidated and infiltrated under the Tories, lost its guts and its mojo. The political assault combined editorial attack with a critique of the licence fee as poor value (which it isn't) and as 'regressive' - a low move from politicians who gave precisely no f*cks for the hard up.

Theory, Culture & Society. ICYMI: Elisabetta Basso, 'Foucault’s Critique of the Human Sciences in the 1950s: Between Psychology and Philosophy' - based on the archives of Michel Foucault collected (since 2013) at the manuscripts department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Theory, Culture & Society@theoryculturesociety.org · 3w ago

ICYMI: Elisabetta Basso, 'Foucault’s Critique of the Human Sciences in the 1950s: Between Psychology and Philosophy' - based on the archives of Michel Foucault collected (since 2013) at the manuscripts department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...