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Finding an Anchor in Digital Space: Sione Tuívailala Monū, Ming Ranginui + Connor Fitzgerald by Moya Lawson
The first image in the Instagram account @sione_has_doubts is a drawing. It’s rendered with brushes and pens in an iPad painter’s app and presents a self-portrait of the artist, Sione Tuívailala Monū, candidly glancing beyond the frame. Monū holds a cigarette in one hand and could be picking an eyelash off their cheek with the […]
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Digital Anaesthetics by Tim Corballis
“It was not only the patient who was relieved from pain by anaesthesia. The effect was profound upon the surgeon.” [1] Susan Buck-Morss Anaesthesia is not only a medical tool. Long ago I read Susan Buck-Morss’s essay about anaesthetics, in which she characterised it as an aspect of aesthetics—an aspect, that is, of the sensory relations […]