Samantha Floreani

Dec 3, 2024 | overland.org.au | Ben Brooker |Samantha Floreani |Liliana Mansergh

Textile and fibre art’s long association with the decorative and feminine — “women’s work” — has ensured the medium’s marginality in the history of the fine arts. In her classic study The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the making of the feminine (1984), Rozsika Parker traced embroidery’s status from a professionalised skill practiced by men and women during the Middle Ages to a leisure activity mostly enjoyed by affluent women in modern times.

Dec 1, 2024 | overland.org.au | Samantha Floreani |Liliana Mansergh |Dougal McNeill

“It’s 2am, and I am filming a threesome scene in a hotel suite…” begins Dr Zahra Stardust’s Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation and Resistance. Stardust goes on to recount her experience at the ninth annual Feminist Porn Awards, where pornographic films were played in an established cinema, replete with popcorn — an unimaginable scenario for readers in Australia, where criminal penalties exist for publicly screening sexually explicit material.

Oct 23, 2024 | theguardian.com | Samantha Floreani

What’s worse than a tyrant boss? That’s easy: it’s a robot tyrant boss. Or, more specifically, it’s a tyrant boss using algorithmic management tools to track your every move and wanting you to work harder and faster.

Aug 7, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Samantha Floreani

It’s so rare to wake up to good tech news. But on Tuesday morning, coffee in hand, it happened: Google has been declared a monopoly. And while the ruling may feel somewhat late to the party — Google is probably the most obvious monopoly in modern tech, duh! — seeing the official recognition of its illegal monopolistic practices felt like a big win. But how much can it repair the damage that tech behemoths have done to our collective digital life?

Jul 24, 2024 | msn.com | Samantha Floreani

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