This article examines how artistic interventions expose and contest Amazon’s entanglement with surveillance, platform capitalism, and the politics of data. Focusing on Ring™ Log (2019) by Mark Sample and Dear Jeff Bezos (2013) by Johannes P Osterhoff, I analyze how these works use speculative and hacktivist tactics to reveal the ideological programs embedded in Amazon’s products and services. Sample’s piece sta...
In this essay, I draw on some considerations about the poetry of António Ramos Rosa to analyze the work Estou Vivo e Escrevo Sol (2016) by Rui Torres. This digital poetry piece is based on a combinatory exploration of Ramos Rosa's lexicon, and allows us to question notions such as intertextuality in the face of what I here call "writing through." As I will argue, it also exposes the notions of root and rhizome ...