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Girl EmployeeEpisode 23 - Corporate Aesthetics with Muj AbdulzadeWelcome back to Girl Employee! Today's special episode is an interview with Muj Abdulzade on corporate aesthetics, performativity in the workplace, and graphic design as an investigative practice.You can learn more about Muj's work:Slow Mondays: https://substack.com/@slowmondaysInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/imujabd/Office Aesthetics, Paola Jalili: https://paolajalili.xyz/office-aesthetics/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/office.aesthetics/Office sirens: https://networkcultures.org/longform/2024/09/23/drown-your-laptop/https://officemuseum.online/index.html2025-06-2342 min
Girl EmployeeEp. 22 - Techno-Spirituality with Anan FriesWelcome back to Girl Employee! Today's special episode is an interview with Anan Fries and their research on technology, spirituality and digital rituals. You can learn more about Anan's work: https://ananfries.net/https://www.instagram.com/hairygaze/https://www.plurality.net/https://www.meghanogieblyn.com/eventsThanks for listening!2025-05-1938 min
Girl EmployeeEp. 21 - Woman at Work with Lua VollaardWelcome back to Girl Employee! Today's special episode is an interview with Lua Vollaard and her fascinating research on women and work, women and computing, and much more. You can learn more about Lua's Work through her Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/fangedluamena/ In general, you can support the research, find bibliographies, and make recommendations through patreon.com/GirlEmployee2025-04-3043 min
Disintegrator27. Critique as Commodity (w/ Morgane Billuart)We’re on with Morgane Billuart, a writer and artist and a researcher whose work engages critically with technologically mediated and determined worlds — not least within her exceptional book “Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed: Inquiries in Female Health Technologies.” Morgane joins us to talk about a large, recent research project on a particular character that many of us identifies with, what Geert Lovink calls the “critical internet researcher” — a figure who engages in a kind of postdisciplinary media theory while at the same time producing and publishing their work through the very media they are studying, the Online. We strongly...2025-03-0458 min
Girl EmployeeEp. 20 - Social Media Love GurusWelcome back to Girl Employee! Today's special episode is about Social Media Love Gurus and our experience with those... You can find more recommendations on our Patreon reading list!https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-20-media-123226336?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkIn general, you can support the research, find bibliographies, and make recommendations through: patreon.com/GirlEmployee2025-02-2742 min
Girl EmployeeEp.19 - 2024 Readings : Academia versus the Outside World and Female Cyborgs in Soviet CinemaWelcome back to Girl Employee! Today's special episode wraps up 2024 as we share insights on two pieces of writing we particularly enjoyed. You can find more recommendations on our Patreon reading list!https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-18-vs-in-119974242?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=web_share In general, you can support the research, find bibliographies, and make recommendations through: patreon.com/GirlEmployee2025-01-1729 min
Girl EmployeeEp.18 - Girl Online with Sophie PubligWelcome back to Girl Employee! We’re thrilled to have a very special guest joining us today—an exceptional researcher and a dear friend, Sophie Publig. In this episode, Sophie will dive into some of her latest groundbreaking research projects, offering us her insights on the concept and aesthetics of "the girl online."Credit for the image is @sensitivesensualistYou can support the research, find bibliographies, and make recommendations through: patreon.com/GirlEmployee2024-11-2749 min
Girl EmployeeEp.17 - Dead Internet Theory and Internet StudiesWelcome back to girl employee. This month, we'll share some thoughts and discoveries on the dead internet theory and how it might challenge the field of critical internet studies and digital cultures at large.You can support the research, find bibliographies, and make recommendations through: patreon.com/GirlEmployee2024-11-1637 min
Girl EmployeeEp. 16 - Generative AI Aesthetics & ArchitectureWelcome back to girl employee. This month, we'll share some thoughts on how generative AI impacts the research and development of architecture, and ways to remain critical or creative with such tools.The image was generated with the following prompt: A home designed for a really cool person with a small cat. It should be minimalistic and all light green. The furniture can be of a trendy modernist/Scandinavian style, with an urban, industrial feel. It should feel neither extremely feminine nor masculine. There should be spaces for existential questioning, as well as social activities. No hanging l...2024-10-2134 min
Girl EmployeeEp.15 - Video Game Graphics : Why so Cinematic?Welcome back to girl employee. This month, we'll share some thoughts on the most recent video game graphics developments, the cinematic potential of game engines, and their public reception.You can support the research and make recommendations through: patreon.com/GirlEmployee2024-09-2837 min
Girl EmployeeEpisode 14 - Podcast, Listening and Platform TemporalitiesWelcome back to girl employee. This month, we'll share some thoughts we produced on the history of podcasts and why sound now, produced in the context of a performance at the Salzburg Modern Museum.A performance part of Listen to It Like You Haven’t Been Born Yet, Tell It as if You Are Still in the Surrogate WombHow deeply are we attuned to the technological systems we place ourselves in and we place in ourselves? This program will focus on the role of platform capitalism in shaping and orienting users’ bodies, gender, and...2024-08-3017 min
Girl EmployeeEpisode 13 - AI PornBotsWelcome to the 13th episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capitalism. Today, Carmen is presenting her latest research on the subject of AI pornbots and the personalized porn industry. We will discuss the technicities and possibilities of such advancements, as well as the perspective of "authentic" still automated intimacy. You can support the research and make recommendations through: patreon.com/GirlEmployee2024-06-2648 min
Girl EmployeeEpisode 12 - Design Accessibility and Canva's AestheticsWelcome to the 12th episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capitalism. Today, we're discussing the platform CANVA and its template, designs, and accessibility. We'll also dive a little deeper into the concept of "design classicism" and the history of desktop designing/design software. You can support the research and make recommendations through : patreon.com/GirlEmployee2024-05-3041 min
Girl EmployeeEp. 11 - Platform criticism on Platforms?Welcome to the 11th episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capitalism. Today, we're discussing the possibility of boosting our posts on IG to reach a broader audience and the ideological contradictions that come with doing platform criticism on platforms. You can support the research and make recommendations through : patreon.com/GirlEmployee2024-05-0947 min
Girl EmployeeEp. 10 - Big Tech Merges and Post-Capitalist AnimismWelcome to the 10th episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capitalism. Today, we're discussing the recent merge between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard and its possible metaphorical meaning for the times we're living in. You can support the research and make recommendations through : patreon.com/GirlEmployee2024-03-2350 min
Girl EmployeeEp. 9 - MMOs and Economic IdeologiesDuring this 9th episode, we will discuss the history of MMOs and how their business models shifted over time, leading online players to question issues related to fairness, meritocracy, but also political ideologies. You can support the research and make recommendations through : patreon.com/GirlEmployee2024-02-2745 min
Girl EmployeeEp.8 - Femtech Co-ReadingThe book Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed has been published!You can order it here : https://www.setmargins.press/books/cycles-the-sacred-and-the-doomed/'In a world propelled by swift technological progress and perpetual obsolescence, women frequently find themselves adapting and altering their daily experiences to remain functional. In the 21st century, as technology purports to comprehensively assess and address women’s conditions and physical discomfort, Cycles, the Sacred, and the Doomed delves deeply into the realm of female health technologies, revealing a space where science, holistic methods, and mythology converge. This book challenges the id...2024-02-1023 min
Girl EmployeeEp. 7 - Love is blind, or love in the time of speculative financeWelcome to the seventh episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capitalism. Today, Carmen will introduce us to the world of the TV show Love is Blind and its tales, and speculative finance. Welcome to the world of distancing, pod-enhancers, and monogamous story-telling.You can support the research and make recommendations through : patreon.com/GirlEmployee2023-12-2243 min
Girl EmployeeEp.6 - AI lovers with Amy BoultonWelcome to the sixth episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capitalism. Today, we're discussing AI lovers and partnerships with artist and researcher Amy Boulton.@amyboulton_amyboulton.infoYou can support the research and make recommendations through : patreon.com/GirlEmployee2023-11-1649 min
Girl EmployeeEp.6 - AI lovers with Amy BoultonWelcome to the sixth episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capitalism. Today, we're discussing AI lovers and partnerships with artist and researcher Amy Boulton. @amyboulton_amyboulton.info2023-11-1647 min
Girl EmployeeEp. 5 - Femtech and the Glitch IdeologyWelcome to the fifth episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capitalism. Today, we're discussing a topic that is very dear to us and that brought us together. Welcome to the world of Femtech and its possible glitches within our economy.You can support the research and make recommendations through : patreon.com/GirlEmployee2023-10-1749 min
Girl EmployeeEp. 4 - The Subversion of the Attention EconomyWelcome to the fourth episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capitalism. Today, we're talking with Luca H. about the subversion of the attention economy and its strategies.You can support the research and make recommendations through : patreon.com/GirlEmployee2023-10-0240 min
Girl EmployeeEp.3 - Swiping cities : the Urbanism of Dating AppsWelcome to the third episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capitalism. Today, we're talking about bumble brew cafe and the ways in which dating apps attempt to move from the screen interface to the physical world.*CORRECTION: Bumble is worth 903 million DOLLARS, not euros.You can support the research and make recommendations through : patreon.com/GirlEmployee2023-09-0542 min
Girl EmployeeEp. 2 - The Gamification of LifeWelcome to the second episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capitalism. Today, we're examining the concept of gamification and its everyday manifestations.You can support the research and make recommendations through : patreon.com/GirlEmployee2023-07-2136 min
Girl EmployeeEp.1 - The etymology of #girlbossWelcome to the first episode of Girlemployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capitalism. Today, girl bosses are getting roasted.**correction: Forbes named Sophia Amoruso richest self-made woman in America in 2016You can support the research and make recommendations through : patreon.com/GirlEmployee2023-07-0227 min