“Protest and Aesthetics in The Metainterface Spectacle” presented by Andersen and Pold
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- Metainterfaces and Mediaspaces
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- Protest and Aesthetics in The Metainterface Spectacle
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The article asks how political agency play out in contemporary uses of the interface. It, firstly, stipulates that the interface is a ‘spectacle’, belonging to a longer history of media spectacles, mass organization, politics and aesthetics. Secondly, that contemporary interfaces are metainterfaces, depending on a new organization of the masses characterized by mass profiling. Finally, it analyses how this play out in examples from art and cultural practices, and speculates on what political protest and revolution is in light of the interface.
