iamcr2025

  • Industrial reconfiguration of post-humanity

    digital technologies and the cultural industry’s expansion of human boundaries in popular media digital technologies decouple presence from physical embodiment research question: how do VR technologies create posthuman cultural forms braidotti haraway theoretical foundations methodology: case study on documentaries findings: technology, capital and ethics nexus technology enabling paratextuality -> surrounding media e.g. social media…

  • Algorithmic oracles

    Attended presentation in POP panel, online spaces as contemporary cultural playgrounds Method: Netnography + discourse analysis + in-depth interviews Research goal: understanding how and why people switch to deepseek fortune telling from traditional fortune telling. Findings: technological empowerment and cognitive deprivation are two sides of the same coin are the fundamental alienations in the…