The post examines the clash between oppressive visual surveillance by ICE and community efforts to document and resist state violence through countervisuality.
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2026-02-02 • creativity art copyright intellectual property ai
Copyright law has historically failed to protect artists, now forcing them to adopt business identities to safeguard their creative expressions against AI exploitation.
The blog post features an interview with Michele Rosenthal, the founder of Armadillo, a licensing platform designed for artists to showcase their work and negotiate directly with buyers, avoiding the pitfalls of traditional stock ...
The post critiques the notion that AI advancements signal the end of photographic evidence, emphasizing the complexities of image verification and the historical context of photography.
The pursuit of knowledge is fundamentally about forming relationships and engaging with others, rather than merely achieving academic success.
Julien Posture transitions 'On Looking' to a paid model while maintaining free access to content, reflecting on their PhD journey and the importance of public scholarship in visual culture.
The text discusses the use of tattoos as a means of identifying and deporting individuals in a fictional state. It explores the concept of legibility and illegibility in relation to tattoos and the potential for misuse by the stat...
0On doing bad and looking hot
2024-12-26 •
The text discusses the intersection between aesthetics and ethics, focusing on the case of Luigi Mangione, a hot man who has been accused of immoral actions. It explores the relationship between looking hot and being wrong, and ho...
The text describes an experiment conducted by Sitong Wang and the author, where they invited illustrators to use a generative model fine-tuned to their style and asked them to evaluate the results. The experiment revealed that gen...
0The wisdom of hot men making shitty art
2024-07-23 •
The text discusses the phenomenon of hot men creating bad art and the implications of aesthetic labor in the art world. It explores the relationship between the artist and their work, the commodification of appearance, and the imp...
The text discusses the social life of images and the linguistic nature of debates about AI and art. It explores the challenges of training a model to transfer the style of an image to another and the historical ideas that shape th...
0I wrote an article for It's Nice That
2024-04-29 •
The text is an announcement of an article written by Julien Posture for It's Nice That about labor and organizing in the creative industry. The article discusses the erasure of labor from the history of art, the need for better wo...
The author discusses their research and the upcoming Season 2, focusing on the flip side of the industry, including designers, art directors, editors, and production managers. They are seeking help to conduct interviews and observ...
0Total Eclipse of the Heart
2024-04-08 •
The essay discusses the rarity and beauty of total eclipses, the challenges of capturing them, and the impact of eclipses on human perception. It also explores the concept of the sublime and the experience of watching an eclipse.
0Thread: How to lose your style?
2024-03-26 •
The author, an illustrator, discusses the struggle of maintaining a recognizable style and the desire to break free from it to explore new ideas and creativity.
0Letters from the field #4 - Work
2024-03-18 •
The text discusses the author's experience working as an illustrator in New York, highlighting the labor-intensive nature of the job and the physical and emotional toll it takes. The author challenges the assumption that the creat...
0Image-Event — Kate Middleton's photo
2024-03-12 •
The post discusses the fake photograph of Kate Middleton and the implications of image manipulation in the digital age. It explores the relationship between images and reality, the rise of visual misinformation, and the emergence ...
0Thread: Quitting illustration
2024-01-15 •
The text discusses the sustainability of a career in illustration, addressing decreasing rates, inflation, precariousness, and changing stylistic trends. It invites illustrators to share their experiences and thoughts on quitting ...
The text is a reflection on the author's 6-month research in New York's creative industry, focusing on the anthropology of illustration. The author discusses the relationships, roles, and perceptions of illustrators and art direct...
The text discusses the importance of reading for creatives and provides a list of books about the people who make images and the images that make people. The books are ethnographic or historical investigations in different aspects...
The text is an interview with Rebecca Blake, a New York-based graphic designer and Advocacy Liaison at the Graphic Artist Guild. She discusses the history of labor unions for freelance artists, the threat of generative AI, and the...
0How to do things with style
2023-11-11 •
The text discusses the importance of style in the illustration industry, tracing its history and its role in creative labor. It highlights the debates surrounding style in the XVIIIth century Great Britain, the role of art directo...
0A moodboard for AI
2023-10-20 •
The text discusses the representation of AI in the media and how illustrators should take over the representations of AI. It suggests that illustrators have the power to claim as their own the creation of representations and that ...
0Letter from the field #2 - Fragments
2023-10-04 •
The text is a letter from the field by Julien Posture, discussing the challenges and insights of fieldwork in anthropology, particularly in relation to illustration and style. The author reflects on the complexities of representat...