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Networked Realism1
Severin Matusek

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a need for curation9
alice smith

It’s long past time that we realized these systems are not benefitting culture. Creators and consumers alike are pushed into preset formats that we ma

Digital platforms are largely devoted to making users consume more, faster—think of TikTok’s frenetic “For You” feed or Spotify’s automated playlists.

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

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 d

identity rotation4
alice smith

this is interesting bc with the abundance of info, we are now turning to each other and those who we aspire to to see what they’re consuming to get th

“We’re moving away from the need to say, ‘These items put together are an aesthetic,’ and moving towards a more fluid state,” Panzoni says. Instead of

Brands are just tools for consumers to describe their personality. If your personality is flat, then you wear obvious things.

book (Alice's version)10
alice smith

The problem goes deeper than this. Increasingly our tech also opens us up to new vectors of anxiety. Regardless of whether you’re working more or less

My perennial thought will always be, if the internet didn't exist in the state that it did now, we would have so many rich, interesting scenes, becaus

Computers can see us as large groups, but they’re glum and only aggregate us to sell us stuff. In reality, the computers give great insight into the p

the art of art1
alice smith

“I realized that internet policy-makers and internet artists have similar interests, but different skill sets. Internet artists make work that questio