Frau Dr Auntie Occident

@Mayameme
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Highly-hyphenated student+teacher of the beloved and messy digital. Makes five very good jokes a year. Posts and tiny rants about digital culture, writing, academia, activism, politics, art, books, feminism, AiML, tech, India, hallucinations of futures past and present. Three body problem: India, Berlin, and Cambridge (UK not MA).
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Worklcfi.ac.uk
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Frau Dr Auntie OccidentJul 3, 2025
The Paul Mellon Centre for British Art is hosting this great Festival of Ideas this week: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forthcoming/event-category/festival
Today: Seeing in the Dark; tomorrow: Artificial Futures. I am going to present some new writing and excited to be in discussion with Nora Al Badri about her fab new deepfakes film ✨🖤
Frau Dr Auntie OccidentJun 2, 2025
Show threadAnne RothJun 2, 2025

„“The financial cost of rejected visas is just staggering; you can think of them as ‘reverse remittances,’ money flowing from poor to rich countries, which we never hear about,” the LAGO Collective’s Foresti says.

Schengen visa fees increased from 80 to 90 euros in July 2024, making it even more expensive for the world’s poorest applicants“

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/cameroonian-sued-france-over-denied-schengen-visa-won-euro1200-in-compensation/6k4s875

Cameroonian sued France over denied Schengen visa, won €1,200 in compensation

Jean Mboulè, a Cameroonian won a landmark legal case against France after his Schengen visa application was rejected on questionable grounds

Business Insider Africa
Frau Dr Auntie OccidentJun 2, 2025
Dmitry Muravyov and I had a chat about my book and he wrote it up as a great blogpost on the @networkcultures blog :
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2025/05/16/interview-with-maya-indira-ganesh/
Pls reach out if you want to talk about the book or have me talk with students /researchers about it. People say it’s thoughtful and accessible (the book, that is)
Institute of Network Cultures | “Irony is an opportunity for ambivalence”: Interview with Maya Indira Ganesh about her Book Auto-Correct

Frau Dr Auntie OccidentNov 18, 2024
I wrote a PhD thesis and now it is a book called #AutoCorrect: #Fantasies and #Failures of #Ai, #Ethics, and the #DriverlessCar. You can read the intro chapter online and pre-order it for Feb 2025 delivery. https://artezpress.artez.nl/nl/books/auto-correct/
Frau Dr Auntie OccidentOct 31, 2024
✨💣🔥❤️ Truth bombs from @wishcrys #aoir2024 on the Eras Tour keynote panel e.g about not having “global influencers panel” and an “influencers panel”
Show threadFrau Dr Auntie OccidentOct 31, 2024
Love Catherine Knight Steele’s closing of this panel 🖤
Frau Dr Auntie OccidentOct 31, 2024
#Nostalgia done right at #Aoir2024 - a wonderful recap of #internet #research over 25 years. #Aoir
Frau Dr Auntie OccidentOct 31, 2024
Nathalie Van RaemdonckOct 31, 2024
Really loved @raquelrecuero comparison of the 2015-2019 era and how it was AoIR's "breakup era" with the internet after a period of romantic infatuation. The entrance of a more critical time in internet research! #AoIR2024
Frau Dr Auntie OccidentOct 31, 2024
TFW you have shared a #pandemic #lockdown #zoom stage with a famous #academic when you were a #PhD student and now are not and must resist the urge to say a familiar hi to them they’re not going to remember u #Aoir2024
Frau Dr Auntie OccidentOct 31, 2024
Starting a thread about #fashion #looks at #aoir2024 aka #Internet #Sartorialists Here are Elinor and Jess