#100hardtruths Main Menu Pledges and lists written over the first 100 days A path through the primer focusing on the several pledges and lists of hardtruths I wrote during the first 100 days of the Trump administration 24 #100hardtruths authored by invited contributors A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths written by scholars, artists, activists, and friends Art Answers to Phony Questions A path through the primer focusing on speaking hardtruths about and through poetic, abstract, formally reflexive, non-indexical Art Forms Virality is Virility A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that connect a macho growing of digital stature to real world violence Fake News R Us A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that reveal our complicity Some #100hardtruths on Digital Media Literacy A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about reading, writing, participating and understanding Digital Media Literacy Some #100hardtruths on Racism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about ethnicity, nationality, zenophobia, immigration and racism Some #100hardtruths on Sexism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about gender, sexuality, sexism, and misogyny Some #100hardtruths on the Law A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about legislation, (il)legality, public institutions, and the power of the Law Some #100hardtruths on Advertising A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about corporate greed, getting eyeballs to content, the monetization of the Internet and Ads Some #100hardtruths of the Internet A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that attempt to reveal the structure, logic, uses and power of the Internet Some #100hardtruths on Freedom of Expression A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about journalism, freedom of speech, and the power of Expression Some #100hardtruths on and through Film and Video A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about or spoken through film and video 35 #100hardtruths highlighting the work of others A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths produced by journalists, scholars, artists, activists found online Credits About the makers of this Scalar book. Old home page that links to Wordpress Some #100hardtruths in poetry Poems that were produced as a result of radical digital media literacy workshops Some hardtruth poem responses and readings

Some #100hardtruths on Images

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A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about photography, (in)visibility, and the power of images.

“In a time where the promise of self-expression has been fundamentally realized only to be as quickly commodified, where our righteous images are easily ripped from their origins so that one person’s proof can become someone else’s opposing “truth,” curatorial projects supported by cultural institutions that ground our images and our acts of reception in carefully constructed contexts might be some of the best possible “good” holding environments, places that might enable us to remake ourselves as the informed, receptive, interactive, embodied citizens most worthy of making use of the history and current conditions of the social justice images in our midst.” (from #100hardtruth #27: new mage holding environments needed)

Contents of this path:

  1. #27: new image holding environments needed
  2. #31: look deeper into the migrant experience
  3. #34: place matters; re/flecting the border
  4. #37, size matters; we have to be minimalist
  5. #40, challenge the narrative of (African) American progress
  6. #42: phatic communication eases interactions but lessens information
  7. #44, black lives matter
  8. #46, stay aware, not afraid
  9. #69, ghosts can’t tell stories
  10. #70, reconnect the space that advertising has interrupted
  11. #71, cultural myths often lead to dominant ideologies
  12. #72, learn how to see Palestine
  13. #74, stay open to contradictions and power #offline
  14. #75, no time for fools
  15. #77, expose the costs and histories of freedom
  16. #83, focus attention on the real-world applications of #fakenews
  17. #85, make productive fake documentaries
  18. #86: resist how we are framed
  19. #91, we need the NEA and NEH to know how to imagine ourselves as a nation
  20. #94, always look for the real thing