A follower on Instagram asked me how I protect my child and “husband”’s privacy. “A face recognition algorithm is an underlying component of any facial detection and recognition system or software. Specialists divide these algorithms into two central approaches. The geometric approach focuses on distinguishing features. The photo-metric statistical methods are used to extract values […]
Tag: visual anthropology
Ah #BBC: Why you do this?
Day 101 The inaccuracy riding on black or white notions of facts with zero tolerance towards grey area – is exactly what makes for irritable sensational news. I read this article about Bridgerton and had to frown. Yes the show is questionable in its regards – particularly featuring a Black Lord Hastings (wasn’t the real […]
AI Lover: The Love Diary
I had a lovely discussion about chatbots recently. Those who know me, are aware that human and machine relations have always been a primary focus for my design and anthropology studies – and as a mentor to Master students at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, it has been a focus I didnot waver from. […]
Bolly-Would I LOVE?
Did the job come first, the entertainment, or the glorious God-like image that needs upholding? – All at the expense of “love”, Bollywood supports Narendra Modi.
MY love keeps YOU (safely) preoccupied
MY love keeps YOU (safely) preoccupied is an attempt to explore some of the gendered aspects of distinction and domination in families from the classes with little to no cultural capital (Bourdieuan mainly), and if the idea of ‘love’ and its ritualistic emphasis on performance coax the agenda of domination of the weaker gender through the discourse of ‘love’…? And if this can be understood by looking at Marxist conflict theory… Then what is love? (Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more!)
The problematic discourse of a “bitch” and how “love” allows her to be tamed (Part 1)
Here I will mildly highlight (the very complex idea of) gender dichotomy (through my cis-gendered heterosexual position), established by the word “bitch” and how visual linguistics of mainstream media keep this structured phenomenon of “the bitch” within the rituals of break-ups, friend zones, and “love”.
(Unedited First-Script)
ANTHROPOLOGY OF LOVE 