Julien 👀 Posture

Illustrator & PhD candidate in anthropology @Cambridge_Uni.
I study how people and machines look together, and against each other. (He)
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[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

I'm here now.
xoxo,
juju

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[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

I’m exhausted by this constant sale of epistemic revolutions, to be told everything is going to change from now on. I’m exhausted to have to be amazed by nonsensical images, to pretend they change how I see the world as if the world I know is an image

https://t.co/y8xzTkW3Dl

[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

@ChombaBupe Interesting, though I'm not convinced this was about morality...

If you're interested in something more critical on the topic, we just published this study of the political economy of style transfer in the illustration industry.

https://t.co/DLrkMio1Kc

[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

If you want to know more about the AI side of style transfer and how it aligns with capitalist extraction in the creative industry, take a look at our #chi2025 paper:

https://t.co/JnbUHmdw4h

[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

This week the world got Ghiblified, pointing to how styles are more than surfaces but essential parts of our cultural, political and economic lives

My PhD is about the political economy of how humans and machines see style in the US illustration industry, I have thoughts!
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[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

If this week has taught us anything, is that styles are never "just" styles.

They are at the core of our cultural, political and economic lives and how we think about, and do things with them has a tremendous impact on our lives

(A real Miyazaki sketch to cleanse your feed.)

[Sitong Wang @sitong0926]

With all the Ghibli-style images in our thread, it's important to ask: How do artists perceive style transfer results? Who benefits from these results within the political economy of creative labor? Check out our #CHI25 paper for fresh insights! 📄✨
https://t.co/5f0AoNMhrh

[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

With all the #Ghibli-fication of everything this week, it seems to be a good time to flag our paper on #styletransfer and #illustration (accepted for #chi2025). The takeaway:

Copying style = extracting value

https://t.co/DLrkMiozzK

[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

https://t.co/7u1WHbmDCQ

[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

I wrote about #LuigiMangione and how our online ogling is pointing to the connections between ethics, aesthetics, and absurd humour.

[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

@domesticetch well deserved!

[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

@domesticetch @itsnicethat 😱

[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

My piece on labor is part of the 50 most read articles on @itsnicethat ! Thank you @domesticetch for the commission and the thoughtful editing!

[It's Nice That @itsnicethat]

Top 50 Most Read 📚: Why creative labour isn’t always seen as “real work” – and what that means for artists and designers > https://t.co/6BHPzpOos2

[Julien 👀 Posture @JulienPosture]

@ChombaBupe It's a new flavour of "taking the map for the territory". Only it's making a sketchy map of the territory, refusing to acknowledge it's not great, and deciding instead to change the actual territory so it fits the sketchy map. 😩

[Al Jazeera Investigations @AJIunit]

How the Israeli military's artificial intelligence systems operate - also from our @AJIunit investigation, 'Gaza'.