#Plog

[ordheist]

pleg and plog

are u a pleg head or a plog head??

[icklewolfiekins]

you know how sometimes you spend too long on ms paint making bad fanart

that's right ive done it again

[sarxastixx-revisi3-asdfasdfasdf]

Nurture

[batmanshole]

drinks i’ve made recently. in order:

decaf iced latte w sweetened condensed milk and whipped cream topped w golden sugar

pink lemonade with peach soju and mint

pink lemonade with strawberry soju and strawberries

[fucklucksterofawoman]

[borjanon]

now that i have a phone again i'm really appreciating having an electronic todo list. it's so nice to look back and see that i actually got a number of things done this week :,)

[haiyouchashaobao]

Shanghai plog part 1 !

Walking and eating

Part 2

[143studies]

04/01/2024 ♡

welcome april! a little bit of my day today. attended my online class + set my calendar for the month ahead with some cute stickers. then went downtown to run some errands, had harussame salad for lunch and hit the gym to get my steps done. have a nice week babies!

[saltminerising]

this one plog crashes the FUCK out of my tumblr app and its making me proper batty

[staybirdsfood]

Crabsssss Do you like crabs? I love crabs. They are beautiful. The hard work we have to put in to get to the flesh pays off once we get it in our stomachs. That is my only motivation.

[typeslugs]

plog_07

I was working on a text about tiktok self-censorship but it didn't go anywhere so instead here's a low effort plog about studying change from the perspective of social sciences.

I recently read Christine Hine's 2015 book Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday for a methodology course I took, and in it, the internet is framed as an axis of change. The internet/digitality as change is perhaps the main academic approach to the subject within the social sciences. The questions of 'how does the internet change our lives?' seems to be the most central one to answer on the subject. While it is always necessary to place social phenomena within a historical context, the centrality of change is at once speaking to the monumental effect of the widespread online (the before and after), and an academic sensibility with its feet firmly planted in the pre-internet. We simply cannot fathom the internet without the context of change.

While I certainly grew up alongside the internet, and saw how it changed the world as I too changed, the normative assumption of the internet as an agent of change seems a bit... unfit. The internet did not change me, because my whole life has been influenced by its emergence. And for my younger colleagues who soon will emerge in this field, this is even more true. Asking us how the internet changed is like asking how the coming of television changed us, or how the implementation of western capitalist hegemony has changed us. At some point when studying the contemporary condition, we will have to view digitality as an embedded part of our existence, and not as an outside force of change.

I do not here mean that the effects of the internet are not important to study. My own thesis project is certainly engaged in the narrative of digitalisation as a meta-process. But by speaking of internet primarily in terms of change, we imply the internet as an auxiliary to society. The effects of the internet are not (only/primarily) interesting in terms of what it has changed in a historical sense, but in what it does to society right now, what structures it implies, what relations of power it demonstrates and produces.

It is easy to look at the internet and say that it changed a lot of things. But it is interesting to look at what what remains underneath. That is perhaps why Kornelia Hahn's 2021 book Social Digitalisation: Persistent Transformations Beyond Digital Technology was so refreshing to me. In it, she looks at digitalisation not as a process of introducing new technologies, but as a longitudinal process of social imagination. It is in the vein of Weber and Foucault, of diving deep into how structures of bureaucracy and thought shape society, and enable the emergence of certain kinds of machine.

When I look at the digitalisation of public transit, what I often find is that the underlying idea persists, but it can be done faster or with more surveillance using the internet. At the end of the day, there are still time-tables for departures and arrivals. Perhaps this institutional lingering can be something that makes it interesting to approach the internet from a perspective of change, to see how the structures of bureaucracy creaks against the force of instantaneous and traceful communication. But then we are perhaps looking specifically at how things do not change.

idk, maybe my brain has been steeped in Marxism for so long that the only change it will recognize as meaningful pertains to relations of production. But I cannot help but to see how, despite so much being different, not much has fundamentally changed in a long time.

[sarxastixx-revisi3-asdfasdfasdf]

Didnt know evas could be this heavy man

[batmanshole]

today :3

a new store opened up in the mall so i went to check it out!! i bought a notebook and a new moisturizer. it was also raining and i got caught in the rain -__-

[p1hstory]

[borjanon]

well, i mostly just doomscrolled today. i guess i can chalk it up to a recovery day after being busy since thursday. i did wash a bunch of dishes and cook three meals, managing to make some leftovers. gotta at least be watching cartoons instead of scrolling >_>

[sojoyful]

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