Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
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Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
Where previous entertainment technologies like cinema or television were intended to capture their audience’s attention for a period, the smartphone demands your entire life.
James Marriott • The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
No article has shaken me this year the way The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society has. Really fucked my shit UP.
Meta!
We live in a world where movies aren’t considered art, but intellectual property. They’re “content,” little chunks of stuff that can be licensed, extended, remixed, rebooted, made into bedsheets and amusement park rides and whatever else will make money. It’s how the business has worked for half a century or more.
archive.is
Slow The Fuck Down and Remain in the now
I keep coming back to this incredible quote from the beginning of Desert Island Discs with Sir Jonny Ive.
Art and
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”