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The Kawayoku Inception.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archives.
- Geopolitics.
- Memes.
- Military art and science.
- New media art.
- Propaganda.
- Technology and the arts.
- Video art.
- Violence.
- Art and technology.
- Genre:
- Art
- Internet videos
- Motion pictures
- Art.
- Internet videos.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], Institute of Network Cultures, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Human rights violations and onlyfans streamers, unboxing and sniping, #pewpew and #militarycurves, war and ahegao. The Kawayoku Inception by Noura Tafeche is an archival project that aims to shape under a new taxonomy contemporary digital elusiveness and the ultimate stage of violence sublimation. Presented here as a video-essay, The Kawayoku Inception intends to show a new perspective of questioning the way we are used to elaborate violence in the realm of human visual perception. The environment of such investigation is of course, the internet, a bristly meadow that breeds our digital lives, our atomized lonesome online experiences daily imbibed by incalculable quantities of images we are incessantly, (in)voluntarily over-exposed to. Kawayoku is an imperfect linguistic crasis freely taken from Japanese language Kawaii > cute + Bōryoku > violence"-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- CC BY-NC-SA.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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