alice smith
@alicesmith
alice smith
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.
Normcore Was Always a Misunderstood Fantasy | SSENSE
You must choose your way forward. The data shouldn’t tell you how to live—you train the AI to paint a more beautiful future - SSENSE
Fwd: HANDS OFF: A generational shift in purpose 🔮
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, because people have to work to share that.
Overmining, extracting and under funding, are we killing culture?
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 the 'best' and their personal curations. Additionally, as ppl become more comfortable with wanting to know every detail, it's only a matter of time before we start using the 'following' feature on IG fo
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Some of the things I’ve been reading of late
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welcome 2 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁. a new forum for jagged and iridescent reflection on the “girl online”, or rather, the necessity of being a girl online. what is it to be a girl? drawing our project’s name from alex quicho’s @amfq article << everyone is a girl online >>, we follow quicho in theorizing the girl as one who ‘tactically’ submits to the wills of the digital algorithm, “vying for both privacy and visibility” through a delicately ‘real’ performance of identity. to participate online is to be a feminine subject, because it subjects one to a self-surveillance from the perspective of the masses. girls embrace the ‘dark forest’ (after bogna konior @bognamk ) of the internet in hopes to manipulate, collectivize, and forge the future. they can engage in 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁𝒷𝓁𝑜𝑔𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑔 in which the hypertextual leakages of online spaces become a watering ground for performances that perverse time/space. in addition to girls online, we focus on ester freider’s @stargir1z conception of 𝓌𝑒𝓉𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈 or the “informational sublime”: a quality created through the hyperconnected nodes of today’s platforms. wetness opens endless opportunities for identity rebirth for girls online, while also necessitating the de-nuanced flattening of content and the capitalistic fetish of gnawing endlessness. through wetness’s infective kiss, girls online birth a new landscape: the 𝒸𝓎𝒷𝑒𝓇𝒷𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓆𝓊𝑒. just as the baroque (coming from the Portuguese word for an odd, misshapen pearl) introduced entrails of illusion, drama, and subjectivity into early 18th century spaces, the girl, existing in the wet space that is the internet, adopts fluidity and illusion in her online performance. just as baroque ceilings were painted to replicate baby-blue, fluffy-cloud skies, the online girl fashions herself a character both real and saturated. in this project, we aim to record and weave the thought done by girls online as well as their predecessors in cyberfeminism. we discard the priority/possibility of authenticity online, if at all. instead we yield to the pearly cavern of artifice, play, and swarm that might reveal that there was no true self in the first place.
instagram.comWhen reading about the motivation for launching these various curation initiatives, it’s clear that it’s not only about rebellion, but also about the critical act of archiving.
idle gaze 033: defending the eccentricity of human taste.
“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 “grabbing” an aesthetic as a whole, consumers can take elements and incorporate them into their own style. “This shift is why we haven’t seen a micro-trend pop in a little bit,” she says.
Did micro-trends kill the trend cycle?
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 power of common identity between groups. No one’s using that. What’s sitting with the computers is a way of seeing new groups, new common identities between people.