Legacy Russell

*** Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism *** Through imagery, memory, and technology, BLACK MEME shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our understanding of the modern world. Without the contributions of Black people, digital culture would not exist in its current form. Through the study of a series of iconic images -including the very fist black kiss on film, lynching postcards; the image of Emmett Till's coffin; the Rodney King video; Michael Jackson's Thriller. Questions of the media representation of Blackness come to the fore as Russell considers why such images shed light on the media's creation of the Black icon. Further more she argues that such memes question who owns such imagery and the right to the memory; as told through the story of Tamara Lanier's fight to reclaim the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors from Harvard. As well as the live broadcast on Facebook of the murder of Philando Castile by the police after he was stopped for a broken taillight. Powerful, unflinching and deeply moving, Legacy Russell forces us to bear witness to the persistent legacy of the Black meme and the question of what we owe to repair and restore visual culture's persistent appropriation of Black imagery.

‘[Casteel] captures everyday encounters with people and places in works that invite recognition of our shared humanity.’ – MacArthur Foundation The first monograph on Jordan Casteel, one of the most critically acclaimed artists working today Jordan Casteel (b.1989 in Denver) is a New York-based artist known for her large-scale, figurative portraits and landscapes made with gestural brushwork and bold swaths of color. From the New York City subway and the streets of Harlem to the woodlands of Upstate New York, Casteel has established a collaborative practice where individuals she has encountered over the course of her daily life are represented in their element, generating an experience that is at once intimate and collective. Casteel's debut monograph features nearly 150 beautifully reproduced images, with sections specially conceived and designed by the artist herself.

In BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media.Russell argues that without the contributions of Black people, digital culture would not exist in its current form. These meditations include the circulation of lynching postcards; why a mother allowed JET magazine to publish a picture of her dead son, Emmett Till; and how the televised broadcast of protesters in Selma changed the debate on civil rights. Questions of the media representation of Blackness come to the fore as Russell considers how citizen-recorded footage of the LAPD beating Rodney King became the first viral video. Why the Anita Hill hearings shed light on the media's creation of the Black icon. The ownership of Black imagery and death is considered in the story of Tamara Lanier's fight to reclaim the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors from Harvard. Meanwhile the live broadcast on Facebook of the murder of Philando Castile by the police after he was stopped for a broken taillight forces us to bear witness to the persistent legacy of the Black meme.Through imagery, memory, and technology, BLACK MEME shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our understanding of the modern world.

Hackers, scholars, artists and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology When learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the military-industrial complex and the grandfathers who created the architecture and protocol, but the internet is not only a network of cables, servers and computers. It is an environment that shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants and their use. The creation and use of the Cyberfeminism Index is a social and political act. It takes the name cyberfeminism as an umbrella, complicates it and pushes it into plain sight. Edited by designer, professor and researcher Mindy Seu (who began the project during a fellowship at the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society, later presenting it at the New Museum), it includes more than 1,000 short entries of radical techno-critical activism in a variety of media, including excerpts from academic articles and scholarly texts; descriptions of hackerspaces, digital rights activist groups, bio-hacktivism; and depictions of feminist net art and new media art. Contributors include: Skawennati, Charlotte Web, Melanie Hoff, Constanza Pina, Melissa Aguilar, Cornelia Sollfrank, Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Mary Maggic, Neema Githere, Helen Hester, Annie Goh, VNS Matrix, Klau Chinche / Klau Kinky and Irina Aristarkhova.

Olemme häiriötilassa. Täällä on välkehtivää, kaikki muovautuu joka hetki uudeksi. Internetin ulkopuolta tai sisäpuolta ei ole. Ne glitchaavat. Manifesti on keksitty uudelleen.Kuraattori ja kirjailija Legacy Russellin Glitchfeminismi - Manifesti ilmestyi englanniksi syksyllä 2020 ja se on jo ehtinyt avata feminististä keskustelua, toimintaa ja taidetta uusiin suuntiin.Paitsi merkittävä kyberfeminismiä päivittävä avaus, Glitchfeminismi on lukukokemuksena sydämen sykettä kiihdyttävä. Sen kurittomuudessa, eri minuuksien vapauttamisessa ja ilossa on radikaalia muutosvoimaa.Kuriton ja iloinen teos on myös muodoltaan. Se tuottaa koukuttavia oikosulkuja, glitchejä, sekoittaessaan rohkeasti eri kirjallisuudenlajeja: manifestia, muistelmia ja teoriaa. Teos pohjaa Russellin kokemuksiin Mustana queer-nuorena internetissä, ja avautuu siitä moniin suuntiin luodenuudenlaista, emansipatorista tilaa sukupuolen, kehon ja teknologian murtumakohtiin.Glitchfeminismi on innostava ja ajankohtainen avaus sukupuolen, teknologian ja identiteetin ajattelussa.Ennen kaikkea se on uudenlaisten vapauden mahdollisuuksien kartoitusta.

The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our identity? How can we come together and create solidarity? The glitch is often dismissed as an error, a faulty overlaying, but, as Legacy Russell shows, liberation can be found within the fissures between gender, technology and the body that it creates. The glitch offers the opportunity for us to perform and transform ourselves in an infinite variety of identities. In Glitch Feminism, Russell makes a series of radical demands through memoir, art and critical theory, and the work of contemporary artists who have travelled through the glitch in their work. Timely and provocative, Glitch Feminism shows how the error can be a revolution.