i talked w/ @jeremybailey, @LeoSelvaggio1, @Jess_Herrington & Lark Spartin to discuss the critical limits/opportunities of negotiating creative boundaries within platform art and the creative/tech industries

this enables unprecedented opportunities for self-representation and imagination in an "actually existing metaverse", which is in some ways a middle ground between social media and avatar-based metaverses.

the article explores the cultural relevance of AI-driven, experience focused applications like AR face filters in pushing social media away from the tricky realm of "information" and "truth" and into the more ambiguous terrain of "performance"

productive links to stuff i cite: @EmilyRosamond's paper on "personality as infrastructure", @mediastudied + @marxnick's politico-economical reading of US conservative comedy, @BraunFerrari's discussion of elon musk's celebrity mgmt in financialised capitalism

in particular, i frame its slippery ideological profile in relation to cancel culture by explaining its "roast universalist" comedy ethos and how it interacts with three platforming practices (cohortification, re-platfroming, shaping infrastructural discourse)