Brian Thomas Clark
@btc
Strategist/Producer/Collector
Digital Experience Director @risd
Brian Thomas Clark
house dysmorphia vs nostalgia:
social media might be causing a sort of “house dysmorphia”
and it’s finally more noticeable as we become more drawn to nostalgia
your home should be a sincere reflection of yourself, not a copy of someone else’s highly curated design
it has so much more value in your life when the space you spend most of your time is... See more
social media might be causing a sort of “house dysmorphia”
and it’s finally more noticeable as we become more drawn to nostalgia
your home should be a sincere reflection of yourself, not a copy of someone else’s highly curated design
it has so much more value in your life when the space you spend most of your time is... See more
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The exhaustion experienced in burnout combines an intense yearning for this state of completion with the tormenting sense that it cannot be attained, that there is always some demand or anxiety or distraction which can’t be silenced. In his 1960 novel “A Burnt-Out Case” (the title may have helped bring the term into general circulation), Graham
... See more“Authenticity”, I think, looks like the power to opt in or out, perform or not, when you want to—in other words: freedom. So when it comes to the Internet, if switching off entirely isn’t possible any more, then surely the words of MGMT can be useful: “control yourself, take only what you need from it.”
The New Nostalgia
This, I think, is another reason why Updike has so many detractors. Ever since F.R. Leavis wrote The Great Tradition , there has been a school of literary criticism that has demanded that great novelists also be great moralists: that the job of the writer is not just to reflect the world but to tell it the difference between right and wrong.
That is... See more
That is... See more
John Updike: Tedious Suburbanite or Literary Great?
Collins suspected, as I do, that the books he can’t remember must have had an effect on his brain anyway, that the experience of reading and engaging with the texts must have changed him in some deeper way, leaving “a kind of mental radiation — that continues to affect me even if I can’t detect it.”
At Capacity
making-meaning and
But what we consume does, truly, matter. It’s essential to appeal to the people in our lives, and remind them of the importance of seeking out imaginative work that might stoke the fires of their own creativity.
Because we aren’t just talking about entertainment here, or distraction, or leisure. We’re talking about the narratives that comprise the... See more
Because we aren’t just talking about entertainment here, or distraction, or leisure. We’re talking about the narratives that comprise the... See more
The Hollywood Originality Edition
making-meaning and
We are adrift–a culture of consumers accustomed to buying objects and building collections as the sole means of documenting our cultures–deprived of the infrastructure to do so. But our individual inability to collect and store is one I’ll lament the least.
Yes, we’re drifting, but maybe we can choose to float towards a more collective stewardship... See more
Yes, we’re drifting, but maybe we can choose to float towards a more collective stewardship... See more
Crimes Against Search | Dirt
digital life—digital cultures and
personal agency vs enshittification
Every carefully tended knowledge garden is a fingerprint of consciousness: A unique archipelago of interests, insights and inspirations that could never be replicated, even by the most sophisticated AI.
By thoughtfully collecting and connecting the ideas that move us, we not only create an invaluable external memory system (which can be great for... See more
By thoughtfully collecting and connecting the ideas that move us, we not only create an invaluable external memory system (which can be great for... See more
Sari Azout • What Matters in the Age of AI Is Taste
