{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Mar\u00eda A. Matienzo","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/","description":"Recent content on Mar\u00eda A. Matienzo","generator":"Hugo -- gohugo.io","language":"en-us","lastBuildDate":"Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:15:29 +0000","item":[{"title":"The plaintiff in #OCLC v. Anna's Archive filed their merit brief with the SC Ohio on the certified question of state law. In addition, BISG has filed an amicus \u2026","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2025\/191\/scohio\/","pubDate":"Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:15:29 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2025\/191\/scohio\/","description":"The plaintiff in #OCLC v. Anna's Archive filed their merit brief with the SC Ohio on the certified question of state law. In addition, BISG has filed an amicus brief. https:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/Clerk\/ecms\/#\/caseinfo\/2025\/0691"},{"title":"\ud83d\udd16 \u00c9ireann Lorsung, \"How After the Quake You Returned to What Was Lost\"","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2025\/028\/quake\/","pubDate":"Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:50:29 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2025\/028\/quake\/","description":"The archive hosts its own weather. A mist that seems to come from the place itself."},{"title":"the not knowing: cage and calvinism","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2024\/not-knowing\/","pubDate":"Sun, 14 Apr 2024 15:00:00 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2024\/not-knowing\/","description":"

it's been a while since i've been deeply unsettled by the lack of resolution in a film, especially if the film's conceit is overall preposterous. however, having just experienced the disquieting jouissance of such cinematic bombast last night, here i am, with a need to verbalize and process this tormentand whom else would i have to thank for this but my favorite member of the coppola family, nicolas cage, rumplestiltskin of the dramatic arts that he is. what, then, of the film that originated this long-winded introduction of this disquiet from theological and epistemological perspectives? it would be none other than KNOWING<\/em> (2009, dir. alex proyas)<\/a>. spoilers follow, so be forewarned, lest ye find not your salvation.<\/p>"},{"title":"2024","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2024\/","pubDate":"Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2024\/","description":{}},{"title":"\ud83d\udd16 Hito Steyerl, \"Subprime Images\"","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/311\/steyerl\/","pubDate":"Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:47:25 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/311\/steyerl\/","description":"Keynote from Critical AI in the Art Museum: Practices & Politics."},{"title":"\ud83d\udd16 MELODY","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/257\/melody\/","pubDate":"Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:50:05 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/257\/melody\/","description":"MELODY is a place where you can make sense of Linked Open Data and publish beautiful data stories."},{"title":"my poem, \"Departing Temescal for Rockridge,\" is in the debut issue of the Erato Literary Magazine (free, pay what you can).","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/237\/erato\/","pubDate":"Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:43:19 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/237\/erato\/","description":"my poem, \"Departing Temescal for Rockridge,\" is in the debut issue of the Erato Literary Magazine (free, pay what you can)."},{"title":"\ud83d\udd16 Jasper Bernes, \"Deeds and Propaganda\"","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/229\/bernes\/","pubDate":"Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:32:52 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/229\/bernes\/","description":"In these territorial movements, which build across the span of years rather than months, shared commitments tie different groups together without producing any simple unity. Such movements require what Hugh Farrell has called \u201cthe strategy of composition,\u201d which \u201cproposes that the multiple segments of a movement remain multiple, while simultaneously weaving the necessary practical alliances between them.\u201d Such a strategy is neither a synthesis, resulting in a new mass subject, nor a simple coalition, in which each group exits the same as it enters. As Farrell writes, \u201cin order to maintain the composition of a movement, each of its component parts must be willing to step away from their identities to some degree.\u201d … Collective strategy emerges in some way other than any one group could have conceived it."},{"title":"i have a new epistolary poem recently published by Travesties?!, which focuses on the interplay of prophylaxis, maritime communication, and desire","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/216\/travesties\/","pubDate":"Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:24:19 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/216\/travesties\/","description":"i have a new epistolary poem recently published by Travesties?!, which focuses on the interplay of prophylaxis, maritime communication, and desire"},{"title":"lostalgia","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/lostalgia\/","pubDate":"Sat, 22 Jul 2023 13:01:00 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/lostalgia\/","description":"for a good part of my life i've had trouble with the past, at least my own. it was uncomfortable to sit with, to remember, to make sense of. however, music has been the notable exception. even therein this feels fraught when i start to think about reunion shows and tours which continue to arise with an alarming frequency as bands and albums i grew up with push their 30th anniversaries (in some cases more). at varying points, i felt like these reunion shows were ridiculous. i didn't full-on object from the standpoint that a band would be \"cashing in\" well after the fact. internally, though, i felt sheepish: was i trying to live in the past yet again? was i refusing to move on? such questions really prevented me from exploring these ways to reconnect to an earlier time and place.\nwhat tipped the scales, however, was the decision to see The Doobie Brothers about a year and a half ago."},{"title":"when you think about it, all music is psychedelic music.\nif it's not, you're not trying hard enough.","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/117\/psych\/","pubDate":"Thu, 27 Apr 2023 21:18:50 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/117\/psych\/","description":"when you think about it, all music is psychedelic music.\nif it's not, you're not trying hard enough."},{"title":"\ud83d\udd16 TIFA: Text-to-Image Faithfulness Evaluation with Question Answering","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/109\/tifa\/","pubDate":"Wed, 19 Apr 2023 21:53:54 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/109\/tifa\/","description":"TIFA uses a language model (LM), a question answering (QA) model, and a visual question answering (VQA) model. Given a text input, we generate several question-answer pairs with the LM and then filter them via the QA model. To evaluate the faithfulness of a synthesized image to the text input, a VQA model answers these visual questions using the image, and we check the answers for correctness."},{"title":"\ud83d\udd16 Caspian Vale \u2013 \"The Entropic Self\"","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/101\/entropic-self\/","pubDate":"Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:52:55 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/101\/entropic-self\/","description":"The Entropic Self, in this context, represents a departure from the humanist ideal of a stable, autonomous, and rational subject, and an embrace of the fluid, fragmented, and distributed nature of human subjectivity in the age of AI."},{"title":"after changing jobs to a workplace where it's not widely used, i've rediscovered the joy of email. i also credit this to the start of the ephronathon, which led \u2026","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/014\/epistle\/","pubDate":"Sat, 14 Jan 2023 18:08:32 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/014\/epistle\/","description":"after changing jobs to a workplace where it's not widely used, i've rediscovered the joy of email. i also credit this to the start of the ephronathon, which led me to watch YOU'VE GOT MAIL (1998) and re-read Hanif Abdurraqib's essay about it.\nwhile i like pithy communication for some things, sometimes deeper thoughts need a broader expression of one's own voice. a turn of phrase that feels wasteful in a text message no longer has the pressure of economy and parsimony. in an e-pistle, i can let the real me come out ever so slightly. i don't worry if closing a message with \"best\" is passive-aggressive; i don't fret about miniscule things. the power is in the whole: header, body, attachments."},{"title":"on jubilee","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/on-jubilee\/","pubDate":"Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:08:00 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/on-jubilee\/","description":"a poem inspired by receiving #PSLF"},{"title":"2023","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/","pubDate":"Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2023\/","description":{}},{"title":"a secret third thing","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2022\/secret-third-thing\/","pubDate":"Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:40:00 -0800","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2022\/secret-third-thing\/","description":"

this is neither a year in review post nor a resolutions post, but a secret third thing.<\/p>"},{"title":"grief and rage makes us do funny things","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2022\/grief-and-rage-makes-us-do-funny-things\/","pubDate":"Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:16:34 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2022\/grief-and-rage-makes-us-do-funny-things\/","description":"

or at least makes us deal with abjection in new ways.<\/p>"},{"title":"\ud83d\udd16 Caitlin Berrigan, \"Kinship is Anarchy\"","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2022\/282\/berrigan\/","pubDate":"Sun, 09 Oct 2022 18:20:04 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2022\/282\/berrigan\/","description":"This is the practice of being-with the kinships we do not choose\u2014human and more-than-human. This is the practice of living inside of contradiction and contamination."},{"title":"\ud83d\udd16 Hydra \u2013 Livecodeing networked visuals in the browser","link":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2022\/272\/hydra\/","pubDate":"Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:51:13 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/matienzo.org\/2022\/272\/hydra\/","description":"I somehow missed this when it dropped. There's a new microgrants program, too.\nReminds me a lot of Cracked by Bill Orcutt."}]}}