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New, technologized forms of anti-Asian appropriation betray both old prejudices and new desires
On Techno-Orientalism New, technologized forms of anti-Asian appropriation betray both old prejudices and new desires Leo Kim June 28, 2021 share Image: From the series WHAT AM I_넌 뭐니 (WHAT ARE YOU?) (2021) by Caroline Yoo . Courtesy the artist. http://reallifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/On-Techno-Orientalism-.mp3 Full-text audio version of this essay. I first came across the existence of fake-Asian digital profiles on Twitter. They had bios written in a mix of Korean and English and profile pictures featuring faces haloed by the blur of overlapping filters. The posts on these accounts
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