Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Is this the new colourless ideas that sleep furiously? 100 1
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 14/05/2026And here I thought it was 'Too Drunk to Fuck' by the Dead Kennedys 010 1
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 29/12/2025To bastardise Arrested Development: now you've got yourself a coup! 010 1
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 23/12/2025This is awful. But there's nothing 'now' about it: consider Abu Ghraib, any number of black sites during the War on Terror, and the terrible things learned in the School of the Americas. 110 1
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 07/10/2025I just gave a talk referring to this! It goes back even further. Carter wrote a GQ profile (May 1984), describing Trump's hands as "small and neatly groomed". Trump was so incensed he tried to buy all the copies of that issue. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukTrump so upset by detail in GQ profile he ordered staff to buy up copies, writer saysThe journalist wrote that Trump had ‘hands small and neatly groomed’ in his 1984 profile 000 0
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I'm very happy to report that my article, "The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Iconology of the Interval", has been published in the Universitat Pompeu Fabra's volume "Challenging the Visual". www.upf.edu/web/movep/pu...upf.eduMotivos visuales de la esfera pública - Publicaciones 030 3
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Jesus, hasn't New College suffered enough? 100 1
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Shen-yi: I've taught about this! These are often referred to as "stereotypography" 010 1
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Rather makes me wonder whether they thought you were a real human. Some people seem to think they’re just yelling at robots. It’s so easy to think that you needn’t try to interact when it’s just disembodied text. 100 1
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Eh, you didn’t give it enough time. They would have eventually 100 1
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 01/03/2025It is. In the other one you'd be hounded. Not sure what's the story is here, but I have long concluded that social spaces are poor venues for reasoned debate. 110 1
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Farm it out, man! Try the NYT, or then New Yorker 010 1
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I really think you should write this stuff up for publication. 100 1
Reposted by Ray Drainvilleokay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Post hoc tuah ergo propter hoc tuah 4809 80
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 10/09/2024A BIG thank-you to the organisers and participants of the British Society of Aesthetics conference. What a great group of incredibly thoughtful people! 020 2
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 02/09/2024Very pleased that @jennysaul.bsky.social & I will be giving a keynote address to the BSA Annual Conference @ St Anne's, Oxford on 8 September. Our talk is called "Can't Unsee: Perspectival Dogwhistles & Deniability". british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/an...british-aesthetics.orgBSA Annual Conference - The British Society of Aesthetics 010 1
Reposted by Ray DrainvilleJenny Saul @jennysaul.bsky.social · 16/07/2024I was interviewed for this excellent article. www.salon.com/2024/07/16/v...salon.com"Very clever effort": Right-wingers find new group to blame over Trump assassination attempt — womenRight-wingers claim “DEI got someone killed" because there were women on Trump's Secret Service detail. 0114 11
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 19/06/2024In this article, @jennysaul.bsky.social & I suggest "perspectival" dogwhistles with examples including AI-generated imagery, rats, and the recent pro-Trump "What's Next for America" advert. iai.tv/articles/pol...iai.tvPolitics and the evolution of the dogwhistle<p><em>The debate around free speech is back in full swing, but can you debate someone who isn't actually meaning what they say? Jennifer Saul and Ray Drainville argue that as technology and platforms... 020 2
Reposted by Ray Drainvilleweird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 03/06/2024idk why but christians on twitter always get mad when i post Chrussy 361601231 1.6K
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 29/05/2024It's finally published! "Visual and Linguistic Dogwhistles" by @jennysaul.bsky.social & me is available online. Because it's me, we talk about Panofsky, alchemy, Barthes and Panzani, and ancient dudes masturbating on statues. Because it's Jenny, it all makes sense. doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...doi.org 020 2
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 08/05/2024I'm very pleased that the new SComS has been published: it's all about image clusters, and the articles are great. In it, I propose a modernised form of iconology that uses artificial intelligence to help query medium-sized datasets of images. www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/issue/...hope.uzh.ch Vol. 24 No. 1: Studies in Communication Sciences | Studies in Communication Sciences 000 0
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 30/03/2024I'm honoured to be published in the latest issue of 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. My article looks at Internet memes from a visual point of view, and notes surprising parallels with Renaissance emblems. doi.org/10.11588/xxi... 130 3
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 30/03/2024I clealry need to use this platform more! 000 0
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 12/12/2023No more reindeer games for *him*, apparently 000 0
Ray Drainville @raydrainville.bsky.social · 11/12/2023How can academics looking at large datasets of imagery use AI fruitfully? I suggest using AI to augment iconological readings in Studies in Communication Sciences: doi.org/10.24434/j.s... 000 0
