Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
musingsandmore.substack.com
- 1.4. The largest cultural segment in any society is the “mainstream,” although it may represent a plurality rather than a majority.
1.4.1 The “average” person in any society belongs to this taste world as it requires no specialized knowledge, nor has very high barriers to participation. Tastes can be acquired through ambient absorption — e.g. heari... See morefrom Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism by Culture: An Owner's Manual
seeds and ambient culture
Could we say that the mainstream is pretty much ambient culture — where you’re merely a passive receiver, you don’t choose but simply pander to the plurality? Is this too the effects of filterworld - where it converges to homogenity?
- “counterfeit fitness”: the constant, momentary “wins” that come with playing digital games give us a false sense of progression and accomplishment, a neurochemical high that feels like victory but is not, and which, if it becomes a habit, risks placating our ambitions to pursue true fulfilment.
from Why Everything is Becoming a Game
what are some examples of ‘counterfeit fitness’?
- To paraphrase Marx, we might hunt for jobs on LinkedIn in the morning, fish for compliments on Instagram in the afternoon, criticize each other on Twitter after dinner, and be as lascivious as we like on Tinder in the late evening, without letting any of these identities define us... Nevertheless, something is lost in this fractionalization o... See more
from People are the New Platforms by David Phelps
The Good Hang Texting Taxonomy (Pt 1)
- THIS is the kind of information I want from the internet. The sharing of unpolished “here’s what worked for me” anecdotes and napkin sketches.
from STRAT_SCRAPS volume one hundred and fifty three
failings of the modern internet
everything is too embellished, too in the output phase? what we want is more process, more reflection, more in-the-midst-of-discovery and ruminating
- Looking for love sounds more like chasing the high of an extreme sport, trust falling with someone you don’t really know like that. It demands exacting reciprocity, extreme vulnerability. It brings out people’s basest and most primal instincts and a frightening desire to merge into someone else. When the girlies on TikTok talk about dating, they ra... See more
P.S and love and dating
- the more we have the confidence and ability to make things from what we already have, the less we feed the capitalist system that doesn’t care about us or the people making our stuff or the planet that our rampant consumerism is actively making uninhabitable.
from Redefining "Handy" and Learning How to Make Things
- “The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small.”
from 3-2-1: On progress, friendship, and how to improve your writing