Year theme 2025 – The Hmm

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Girl Online 🎀 Symposihmm #1

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Performing as a girl online can be a powerful way to subvert the algorithm. And thanks to the whiplash of the girlboss epidemic, a meeker and cute self-image is now … Read More

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The Best Version of Yourself 💪 Symposihmm #2

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Over the past decade or so, the self-help industry has made the leap from books to online with a rise in gymfluencing, wellness guru culture, and all sorts of coaching. … Read More

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Metaphormaxxing: A Mapping Game

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What meaning do we assign to images on the internet? And to what extent do we identify with them? In the offline world, our physical traits generally influence how people perceive … Read More

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Bombardiro Bodies: Masculinity, Fascism, Marinetti and a Millennial Transmasc in the Age of Italian Brainrot

In this essay, writer Mel Ghidini explores masculinity and the links between Italian brainrot, fascism, concrete poetry, and Futurism from a transmasc and queer perspective. … Read More

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SLOWwwww- – . .

Socrates Stamatatos uses slowness as a subversive response to the elitism and exclusion embedded in accelerationist thought.… Read More

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Quiz: Assigned Gender By Algorithm

With this essay in the format of a quiz, Senka Milutinović explores how gender is mediated online and how we as users can resist and subvert where the algorithmic gaze leads our expression of it.… Read More

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Talking Technofeminism: The Hmm @ Design Museum Den Bosch

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Join us for Talking Technofeminism: The Hmm @ Design Museum Den Bosch, where we’ll be joined by six artists, researchers, and makers who’ll take us through their explorations and interactions … Read More

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The Hmm ON the Animal Internet

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Who says the internet is just for humans? Some might say that it’s made of cats, (there’s even a song about it). Sharks swim between internet cables, the Doge meme … Read More

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Thinking Face Emoji – Episode 1: Girlboss, Through the Years

In this inaugural episode of Thinking Face Emoji, Margarita Osipian and Sjef van Beers from The Hmm, are joined by Sam Cummins, of Nymphet Alumni, to discuss the girlboss.… Read More

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Thinking Face Emoji – Episode 2: Sigma Male, or How Incel Terms Went Mainstream

In this episode Salome Berdzenishvili, from the Institute of Network Cultures, and Sjef van Beers, from The Hmm, talk to Dr. Daniël de Zeeuw, from the University of Amsterdam, about how terms originally associated with incel and femcel communities seem to have reached the mainstream.… Read More

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Thinking Face Emoji – Episode 3: Gigachad, or the Surge of Nu-genics

In the third episode of Thinking Face Emoji, Margarita Osipian from The Hmm and researcher Mita Medri, are joined by writer and cultural commentator Ana Sumbo, to discuss the online phenomenon of looksmaxxing.… Read More

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Thinking Face Emoji – Episode 4: Sock, the Bushwick enby

In this episode, Maja Mikulska from The Hmm and Anielek Niemyjski from the Institute of Network Cultures are joined by Maya B. Kronic – co-author of Cute Accelerationism – to discuss all things Sock.… Read More

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Thinking Face Emoji – Episode 5: Post-Soviet Girl, or the Sad Girl Trope

In the fifth episode of Thinking Face Emoji, Margarita Osipian from The Hmm and Anielek Niemyjski from the Institute of Network Cultures are joined by writer and independent researcher Salome … Read More

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Thinking Face Emoji – Episode 6: The Future of Girlhood

In the sixth and last episode of the season we delve into the future of girlhood in online culture. Since 2023, the so-called “year of the girl” with trends like … Read More