People Are Not Fixed Media

12/04/2022 16 min

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ritwik Banerji can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/people-are-not-fixed-media/. About the post: Fixed media are the dominant media form social scientists and humanists use to depict human practice. If the goal is to portray human beings as they are, the dominant media form used to do this in the humanities and social sciences is incommensurate with the basic indeterminacy and reactivity of the subject they attempt to represent: the human being.

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