Brian Thomas Clark
@btc
Strategist/Producer/Collector
Digital Experience Director @risd
Brian Thomas Clark
@btc
Strategist/Producer/Collector
Digital Experience Director @risd
In previous generations, depression was likely to result from internal conflicts between what we want to do and what authority figures – parents, teachers, institutions – wish to prevent us from doing. But in our high-performance society, it’s feelings of inadequacy, not conflict, that bring on depression. The pressure to be the best workers,
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personal agency vs enshittification
When everything is cheerfully “retro,” Fisher argued, we lose our grasp on history—and, without a sense of why the past happened the way it did, our anything-goes embrace of “happy hybridities” is an empty gesture. “What pop lacks now is the capacity for nihilation, for producing new potentials through the negation of what already exists,” he
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Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived
Hua Hsu, December 11, 2018, New Yorker
digital life—digital cultures and objects
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Pockets of Weird: The Fight Over Reality
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