Britney baby one more time
That time she was put on a pedestal
Britney Spears left an imprint on us when she debuted in the late nineties.
What is one thing to get the world yapping?
Stereotype yourself into being an innocent schoolgirl breaking out with a revealing midriff.
Every girl wanted to be like her and every guy wanted to date her.
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Blondie and her Three Bears
Blondie made her way to the outdoor area of work. She had her water bottle, a sandwich, and her phone. She straddled the barbecue table seating and dug into her sandwich. It wasn’t her sandwich, but she figured, coz it was sitting on the kitchen bench this morning, she would take it. She unlocked her phone and looked at the missed calls and texts from her mother. Maybe about the stolen sandwich.
By Jerome Smith-Pula3 years ago in Filthy
The Shaped Self: Images Without History
The Shaped Self: Images Without History Peter Ayolov, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, 2026 Abstract E-democracy is not a technical upgrade of representative government. It is a transformation of citizenship inside a regime of visual formatting. Drawing on Žarko Paić’s analysis of video-centrism and the world-picture, this article argues that contemporary political life unfolds in an environment where images no longer reflect history but organise reality in advance. In this condition, the citizen does not merely participate; the citizen appears through an interface. Political agency becomes inseparable from visibility, recognisability, and circulation. By placing Paić in dialogue with Marcel Duchamp, Jean Baudrillard, Tom Wolfe, and Jean-Luc Nancy, the article develops the concept of the shaped self as the central figure of e-democracy: an interface-formed subject structured by edges, templates, and repeatable visual patterns that enable identification but risk reducing agency to performance. The struggle for democracy becomes a struggle over representation itself: over ownership of likeness, transparency of distribution systems, and the capacity to distinguish voice from simulation in an environment saturated with images, metrics, and deepfakes. As the concluding work of the Mirror Selves Trilogy, this article presents the book The Shapes of the Self: Identity and Recognition in Visual Space (2026) that investigates how the self emerges not as an inner essence but as a shaped and formatted presence within contemporary visual space.
By Peter Ayolovabout 10 hours ago in Critique
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At one point. So much has changed since.
catchy title, and your answer to "What is one thing to get the world yapping?" was funny and accurate at the same time.