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Ruby Thelot

New York, Toronto
As seen in: Medium, Substack, Dazed Magazine, SSENSE, Nothing Personal, ARTnews, Artforum, Ocula, Protein, Byline and
Covers:  Art, culture, fashion, memes and technology
Designer, cyberethnographer and artist. host of MEDIA STUDIES @MTSlive Prof of Design and Media Theory @NYU. Writing: beingonline.substack.com

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Ruby aka Justice Thélot is a writer, curator, and artist based in Montreal, Canada. My work focuses on technology, the new meanings of cultural and alternative futures. My work has been exhibited in Berlin, Montreal, Toronto, New York and has appeared on Blop Culture, Sukeban and Yiara.

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Old Town Road and the Erasure of Black Cowboys

Old Town Road and the Erasure of Black Cowboys

There have always been black cowboys Surveys of the history of the American West detail many accounts of the …

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You Will Live at Work - The Bull & Bear

You Will Live at Work - The Bull & Bear

you will live at work

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“Enshittification” Isn’t Real Original

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By Ruby Thelot
| a16z.news
America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Today’s guest post is by Ruby Thelot, a professor at NYU and astute tech observer. You can watch his recent appearance on MTS here. Every year, more people use and spend more time on Big Tech platforms. It is fashionable to hate on social media and to pontificate about how it’s worsened, because the intellectual accoutrement du jour is being a conscientious (™) tech critic. This stated preference does not match the general public’s behaviours.
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Aesthetic Stagnation

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By Ruby Thelot
| Protein
New aesthetics exist most visibly in new media. New aesthetics emerge through synthesis. New aesthetics require a philosophy. New aesthetics must be actively sought by audiences. New mass aesthetics require a shared vision of the future. The industrialisation of culture disrupts the cycle of innovation and risk-taking. The past and its artefacts weigh on the future. New aesthetics exist, but mostly in new media. Economics influences mainstream aesthetics more than audience taste.
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What’s in a “Friend”?

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By Ruby Thelot
| Nothing Personal
You probably have too many friends on social media, but that’s not your fault. Technology often reconceptualizes our social infrastructure, and not for the better. Friendship is a great example. Social media began as a set of platforms meant to connect us digitally, but it has evolved in a way that muddies the definition of friend by commingling it with the notion of followers. Take Instagram: It is a confusing platform these days.
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