Oliver Arellano-Padilla

My research focuses on design, cultural studies, media theory, and technology. PhD at Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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This place marked with an X - aka Twitter- is a dumpster on fire. The smell is disgusting, still I can’t keep my eyes from looking all this magnificent pit on fire. #Sundayfeeling #GoodVibesOnly

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My highlight today at #EASST4S2024 this guys is playing amazing rare vinyls

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Today at #EASST4S2024 I will be attending this fascinating panel Outer space: imaginaries, infrastructures and interventions. So far, “Learning to Moonwalk” was amazing! @Sitraka

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Thank you to the people who participated in the workshop Luck v algorithm at the
#EASST4S2024 I had great conversations around technology, religion, and expansion of the secular through design as cultural neo-colonialism

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@marcelaturati @DeniseDresserG Si votaran en México sabrían que es normal las filas. O tal vez jamás han hecho una.

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To design, therefore to imagine, is the production of a new social fiction. By the things we design a multitude comes to life.

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“The end of evolution.” (Leroi-Gurhan) Even as one waits for the end of history, there remains the mundane task of organizing the world” C.Johnson 2011

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Ever wonder about the aesthetics of luck and AI? @D_Populist presented a compelling argument for the progression of luck from superstition to tech.

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@datasociety @taylormajewski Of course Gilbert Simmondon and his idea of individualism get to the point whit (painful read) but genius clarity on our relation with technology. Not only cybernetics.

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@datasociety @taylormajewski I recommend to People interested in a history and theories of the user to read Norbert Wiener (1954) The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society.

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@datasociety @taylormajewski To deep more on use(d) definitions also read Hegel, Elements of Philosophy of Right to get to property argument. The debate could be in recognizing use.

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@cscolari I read it while having breakfast today. I enjoyed the historic events that lead to the debate of the word. But debate shouldn’t be on the use of the word. Rather political implications.

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@La_Uva83 @epigmenioibarra 😂

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@sabinaberman Token cultural. Ungüento simbólico

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@cscolari Una estudiante en su 20s ve películas y series a 2x para poder ver más contenido que le gusta, dice “no tengo suficiente tiempo” opinas que está cambiando a velocidad de la narrativa ? O siempre ha sido contingente la tecnología?

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@vernon_w_cisney Normal people can’t find Jordan Peterson books in a 7 eleven, or do they?

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@MarinaMedvin “fuck context”
- Rem Koolhaas, (2004) Bigness, in: S, M, L, XL
Please learn to cite properly

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@epigmenioibarra Calcúlalo en base al tuyo pero más impuestos.

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@LillyTellez Bajo concepto de drogas se incluyen diazepam. Te tomas dos o uno?

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@RicardoBSalinas Para la alguien que solo sostenta capital y no cargos políticos. Eres probablemente el segundo empresario (después de Trump) que se convierte en un empresario populista. Sus fines no son transparentes. Usted oculta sus intensiones en discurso populista.