Culture is Stuck
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Culture is Stuck
A certain strand of technology might be accelerating, but culture is going nowhere in particular — a decaying orbit around a decades-old gravity well; cycling & recycling; pastiche & déjà vu; playlist set to loop.
Robin Sloan • The Golden Sardine
Our culture seems to be spiraling into a feedback loop of homogenized thoughts and ideas, where originality is sidelined in favor of the predictable and the algorithmically optimized. In fact, one of those machines wrote the last 28 words, from “our culture seems” on.
Alt Lit | The Point Magazine
Cultural theorist Emily Segal—who spoke at VISIONS Summit LA—recently sounded a stark warning: youth culture is effectively “over.” Every form of rebellion has been cataloged, commodified, and re-circulated as content.
Brian Lange • Article
The Nostalgia Cycle Loop
Hope is the one virtue that requires imagination , in the sense that we consider the past and imagine a better future.
The nostalgic content being churned out via movies, books, even music(!) requires less imagination on our part because it comes from already-established world building. It’s easier to imagine the context aro... See more
Hope is the one virtue that requires imagination , in the sense that we consider the past and imagine a better future.
The nostalgic content being churned out via movies, books, even music(!) requires less imagination on our part because it comes from already-established world building. It’s easier to imagine the context aro... See more
kyla scanlon • The Nostalgia Cycle Loop
