I rejected the offer to work with Abramovic and MOCA \u2014 to participate in perpetuating unethical, exploitative and discriminatory labor practices \u2014 with my community in mind. It has moved me to work towards the establishment of ethical standards, labor rights and equal pay for artists, especially dancers, who tend to be some of the lowest paid artists.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2192 Artinfo, Sara Wookey: Letter From a Dancer Who Refused to Participate in Abramovic\u2019s MOCA Performance<\/a><\/p>\n Paid posting is a well-managed activity involving thousands of individuals and tens of thousands of different online IDs. The posters are usually given a task to register on a website and then to start generating content in the form of posts, articles, links to websites and videos, even carrying out Q&A sessions.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2192 Technology review, KFC: Undercover Researchers Expose Chinese Internet Water Army<\/a><\/p>\n After I asked her scary things like what\u2019s her reason for wanting to become a celebrity while enduring such difficulties at a young age, and hasn\u2019t she heard of idols whose youth and talent were exploited after they signed so-called \u2018unfair contracts,\u2019 she answered me. \u2018Reporter Onni, be honest. If a person like me, without money or connections, and whose grades are so-so, somehow goes to university, what is there after that? Even though it\u2019s a little difficult now, you know that if I just get an agency, that is a real opportunity to me.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2192 The Grand Narrative, Kang In-kyu: What did Depraved Oppas Do to Girls\u2019 Generation?<\/a><\/p>\n Over at Changesurfer Radio, J. Hughes interviews Erik Olin Wright about the definition of “class” and how that concept has changed the past hundred years. It’s very basic stuff, but seeing as much of the debate and polemics of the day assume so much \u2014\u00a0especially on the topic of post-industrial or post-class society \u2014\u00a0that it’s … Continue reading Farming hearts and minds.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,279,1459],"tags":[1578,1574,1263,93,1576,1575,1579,1577,1580],"class_list":["post-4483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found","category-photography","category-reporting","tag-abuse","tag-artists-rights","tag-china","tag-dancing","tag-farming","tag-grinding","tag-korea","tag-kpop","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSCN7046.jpg\" "\\"DSCN7046\\"")
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