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<h1 class="entry-title single-title" itemprop="headline">Selfies Under
Quarantine: Students Report Back to Rome</h1>
<strong>By Donatella Della Ratta</strong><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/09/selfies-under-quarantine/">https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/09/selfies-under-quarantine/</a><br>
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<p><strong>Episode 1: BOREDOM, SADNESS, NUMBNESS</strong></p>
<p><strong>In collaboration with Danielle, Shaina, Briana, Jackie,
Marta, Gabriella, Sydney, Elena and Sophia</strong></p>
<p>This week’s reading: excerpts from <span style="color: #000000"><a
style="color: #000000"
href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339344/sad-by-design/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #666699">Geert
Lovink’s ‘Sad by Design</span>’</a></span>. Watching: <span
style="color: #666699"><a style="color: #666699"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOhX2-GSNc0" target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer">Geert Lovink’s talk at John Cabot University</a></span>.
Looking at: <span style="color: #000000"><a style="color: #000000"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bar_at_the_Folies-Berg%C3%A8re"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #666699">Edward
Manet’s painting ‘A Bar at the Folies-Bergere</span>’</a></span>.</p>
<p>We reflected on the following quotes:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Emotion is a luxury<u>,</u> right? To be angry is a
luxury. We don’t have that luxury right now. Let’s just deal with the
facts, let’s just get through it.” <strong>Andrew Cuomo, Governor of
New York</strong></p></blockquote>
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