We are/not sound bites

 

Length: 0:40

 

The “Desire” video of Jackie repeats: Jackie’s torso, off center, slightly to the right, turning in circles, dancing. Jonathan says the following:

 

We are/not sound bites. We are/not status updates. We are/not items in a news feed. We resist the deployment of robust multimedia technologies to render life one sentence at a time. We reclaim the perverse and promiscuous hypertextual and hypermedial capacities of the thick network to meditate queerly on the self—dispersed and whole, with its own uncharted, unchartable flows, leaks, blockages, dead ends, blind alleys, and fantastic journeys.

 

Periodically, some text is emphasized, overlaid in bold white type on the video of Jackie turning:

 

We are/not sound bites

We are/not status updates

We are/not items in a news feed

one sentence at a time

perverse and promiscuous

thick network

dispersed and whole

uncharted/unchartable

fantastic journeys

 

In the above, a slash separates the words are and not, indicating that we simultaneously are and are not sound bites, status updates, and items in a news feed.