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• 1 2017-11-06T18:40:17-08:00 #10: YouTube is a performatively self-aware political-economy 5 February 20, 2017 plain 2019-07-23T21:30:35-07:00 YouTube is a new kind of nation-state rooted in, and ruled by, self-aware performances about the rules and truths of its own conditions and practices. Like the internet it is built in and builds, it is a self-aware production about the conditions and experiences of social media labor, affect, ownership, and politics that also teeters on, and sits uncomfortably within, the true/fake divide.
  Note to readers: With a heavy heart I link to this video. You need not watch it to understand its astounding connections to and revelations of the internet’s self-aware exposés of labor, politics, economics, the nation-state, and the truth/fiction divide. Its status as real and fake news is definitive of the medium, the message, and the man.
  
  Further Reading on Performance and #100hardtruths-#fakenews:
  • “Judith Butler and Performativity for Beginners (Mostly in her Own Words),” Irene Gustafson
  • Learning from YouTube, Alexandra Juhasz
  • Peggy Phelan. Unmarked: The Politics of Performance. London; New York: Routledge, 1993

  To see a poetic response to this hardtruth:

  We can learn to practice truth everyday
• 1 2019-07-23T21:27:29-07:00 We can learn to practice truth everyday 3 Toronto couplets plain 2020-02-17T01:04:42-08:00 We can learn to
  practice truth everyday,
  to codeswitch, to
  think, to ask, refuse
  start over, triangulate,
  disbelief, know when we
  are being dominated and, if
  we are fortunate, lucky, careful, heedful
  to move
  
  By Toronto Party
   

  This poem is a response to hardtruth #10:

  #10: YouTube is a performatively self-aware political-economy
• 1 2019-06-26T03:29:43-07:00 Trump is our Rightful Internet President 1 By Maria Z gallery 2019-06-26T03:29:43-07:00 Trump is always on the internet.
  Trump is on Twitter always lying.
  He cheated on his wives and he is in office?
  Trump does not tell the truth and God will judge his heart.
  Why doesn't Trump man up and tell the truth?
  How dare you Trump, cover up your thighs?
  You are a lying, adulterous man who broke one of the Ten Commandments. it's Thou shalt not commit adultery.
  Trump you must confess on what you did.
  If you don't confess your sin how will you live yourself?
  Trump you can't handle the truth.

  This poem is a response to hardtruth #3:

  Trump is our rightful internet president