Andrei Stoica
@andreistoica
Andrei Stoica
THE DARK MODE SHIFT
I've written about the 'return of opulence,' but after watching the past few months unfold and reading Sean Monahan's (@8ghtb4ll) The Boom Boom Aesthetic, it feels more like a shift from 'light mode' to 'dark mode.'
For the last 15 years, there’s been a cultural push to... See more
The concept of ‘deep time’ was first described in 1788 by the Scottish geologist James Hutton, although only coined as a term 200 years later, by the American author John McPhee. Hutton posited that geological features were shaped by cycles of sedimentation and erosion, a process of lifting up then grinding down rocks that required timescales much... See more
Back to the Point — I’m Moving Towards Using Obsidian.
How the Concept of Deep Time Is Changing - The Atlantic / Aeon
We have to face the fact that most men and women out there in the world of work are more stale than they know, more bored than they would care to admit. Boredom is the secret ailment of large-scale organizations. Someone said to me the other day "How can I be so bored when I'm so busy?" And I said "Let me count the ways." Logan Pearsall Smith said... See more
pbs.org • John Gardner : Education and Excellence
Contemporary life feels significantly organized by a post-1960s schism, where much of the energy that fueled outward-oriented activism and mass politics (“repair the world”) was diverted inward, into the culture of self-help and the business of individual wellness (“repair yourself”).
Where is God in clothes?
Person A: Niche gripe with Vivek’s tweet but Whiplash is *not* a good model for how to be a highly successful person, much less an artist
Erik Torenberg • Dispatches from the Group Chats, Vol 4
In this new book, Han describes the deleterious effects of that degeneration on storytelling. Storytelling used to bind us communally over the campfire; it connected us to our pasts and helped us imagine hopeful futures. The digital screen has replaced that fire, making us individuals performing factitious versions of ourselves to unseen peers,... See more
Stuart Jeffries • The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han Review – How Big Tech Altered the Narrative
2. Income Security Through Social Safety Nets
The second pillar ensures workers are not left destitute during unemployment. Denmark’s unemployment insurance system ( dagpenge ) provides up to two years of income support, covering 90% of previous earnings for lower-wage workers (capped at approximately €2,300 per month)310. To qualify, workers must... See more
The second pillar ensures workers are not left destitute during unemployment. Denmark’s unemployment insurance system ( dagpenge ) provides up to two years of income support, covering 90% of previous earnings for lower-wage workers (capped at approximately €2,300 per month)310. To qualify, workers must... See more
Just a moment...
Compare the brevity, and examples, to its first definition in Webster’s 1913 edition:
To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.... See more
To love, at least contemplate and admire,
What I see excellent.
—Milton
We thus dilate
Our spirits to the size
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
the internet is the precarious reservation onto which culture has been driven, bleak and uncanny, inhuman in scale.