PLATFORMING VIBES: TECHNICAL, INTIMATE AND POLITICAL PRACTICES OF THE EVERYDAY

In this panel, we offer four papers on some of the complex ways in which sound, sensation, affect, and embodiment shape, are shaped by, digital platforms. This approach does not eschew questions power as a key concern, but rather foregoes broad dystopian (or utopian) generalizations, pointing instead to specific instances platformized platform-adjacent cultural production see how manifests contextually ways. “Anti-Caste Reverberations Haryana’s DJs their Trucks” deploys site-specific physical ethnographic methods Haryana, understand affective interplay between DJ trucks’ anti-caste space-making techniques Indian streets its aesthetic political extensions enabled through platform-based circulations. “Monstrous Toys Sensory Play” considers repurposing children's toys creation sensorially stimulating videos for adults TikTok tied (typically white, male) Western liberal-humanist orientation bodily-sensation, while at same time suggesting more radically posthuman model techno-ecologies. “AI.Go.Rhythms: Technology, Race, & Culture Mix” explores bodies material technologies, by observing multimedia event, shifting attention from technical sonic practices towards embodied aspects race culture, community building, remixing, algorithmic self-styling: 'platform' honoring Black/Brown bodies, aesthetics, world-making practices. “Producing Intimacy Virtual Reality” applies an autoethnographic examine presenter’s dates virtual reality, explaining intimacy was produced maintained experiences (sound, interaction, shared space), also being politics platforms infrastructures. As each these demonstrate, broader forego possibility insights might achieve scale applicability, merely acknowledges micro- crucial site approaching and, whatever degree necessary, revising prior understandings macro-.