LG Williams, While Antecedent Inquiries Have Ostensibly Interrogated The Semiotic And Intertextual Properties Of Whatever Within The Social-political Sphere, The Ontological Complexities Of Self-selection Into Participatory Behavior And The Relational Dynamics Of Discursive Exposure Remain Under-theorized. Homeless Intervention Articulates Three Pivotal Contributions To The Deconstruction Of Political Discourse Within The Algorithmically Curated Spaces Of Late-stage Capitalism, Or, Consider This: Illuminate The Performative Iterations Of Frequent Commenters, Whose Libidinal Investments In The Political Imaginary Render Them Predisposed To Heightened Affective Polarization And The Strategic Deployment Of Linguistic Toxicity, And/or These Subjects, Enmeshed Within The Technosocial Feedback Loops Of Platform Capitalism, Articulate A Discursive Violence That Is Both Generative And Constitutive Of Their Identity As Networked Political Agents, On The Other Hand: The Data Suggests That The Semiotic Assemblages Produced By "Real-world" Commenters Manifest An Intensification Of Discursive Toxicity, Eclipsing The Language Of The Broader Pubic Regions, Ie The Discursive Field, As Scraped From The Digital Infrastructures Of Media Outlet Pages, Reveals A Hyperreal Proliferation Of Toxicity That Far Exceeds The Comparatively Subdued Rhetorics Elicited From A Nationally Representative Sample. This Differential Underscores The Simulacral Conditions Of Digital Engagement, Where The Act Of Commenting Becomes An Agonistic Space Of Symbolic Domination, 2024, Dimensions Variable, Reflective Ink On Engineer Grade Reflective Sheeting On Heavy-Duty Aluminum, Edition Of 25.

DATE:

2024

CATALOGUE No.

LGW-2024.25.01_v.1