Culture Study | Anne Helen Petersen | Substack
the GPS/mapping function of the phone is quite useful — but apart from that, our phones really aren’t doing much that our computers don’t do, they’re just portable and thus available to disrupt any potential boredom.
Anne Helen Petersen • Culture Study | Anne Helen Petersen | Substack
via Sam Kriss: A chaser: “Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive.”
my social feeds seemed to finish their years-long transformation from a neighborhood populated with friends to a glossy condo development of brands.
Culture Study | Anne Helen Petersen | Substack
Our lives don’t have to become others’ cheap food for consumption.
Anne Helen Petersen • Culture Study | Anne Helen Petersen | Substack
Climate monsters, cultural monsters, political monsters. You can’t fight them by consuming news, or quote-tweet dunking, or sharing a graphic. You can fight them through connection. Social apps might be the “easiest” place for that to happen — and by that, I mean it might the place with the least immediate friction — but that does not make them the... See more