alice smith
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alice smith
Between Entities and Identities: The Internet of Egregores
Exploring the concept of egregores, the text examines how collective online identities and fandoms manifest as influential forces within digital platforms, shaping social dynamics and individual experiences in the digital landscape.
zhexi.info“even a ‘main character’ on the timeline means partaking in a conscious performance and leaning into a particular version of a public character”
Because brands are only as old as the people who direct them. That’s why you’re now seeing a deterioration of people following brands, as opposed to designers and stylists.
So it’s going to be about celebrity?
It’s going to be about visionaries.
So it’s going to be about celebrity?
It’s going to be about visionaries.
Thom Bettridge • VIRGIL ABLOH: “Duchamp is my Lawyer”
Brands are just tools for consumers to describe their personality. If your personality is flat, then you wear obvious things.
Thom Bettridge • VIRGIL ABLOH: “Duchamp is my Lawyer”
Curators slow down the unending scroll and provide their followers with a way of savoring culture, rather than just inhaling it, developing a sense of appreciation.
Kyle Chayka • The New Generation of Online Culture Curators | The New Yorker
In the last ten years, pattern recognition has become a cultural activity. You see that on the bad end, like QAnon, and on the more fun end with the pervasiveness of trend forecasting.
