Digital Lockdown with Geert Lovink —
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Digital Lockdown with Geert Lovink —
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Within 24/7 capitalism, a sociality outside of individual self-interest becomes inexorably depleted, and the interhuman basis of public space is made irrelevant to one’s fantasmatic digital insularity.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Is it possible to solve the problem of attention theft? As we transition into an increasingly digital existence, we are torn between existing in the real-world and the metaverse. Logging off for sanity, connectedness, peace of mind, seems almost irresponsible because of the personal and professional obligation to be reachable; because technology en... See more
Avantika Mehra • 100 questions for 2022
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Many of us yearn for a way to be fully online without all of the mindlessness, passivity and addiction that often entraps us. Some of us oscillate between fully online and fully offline in a sort of mad dance to establish what feels right. Others have lost hope that it’s possible to engage in a way that feels true and alive, and have resigned to us... See more
Dan Hunt • Internet as Practice
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The digital dominance of the 21st Century has sorted us into our own tailored versions of online reality, where we drown in ads and information. It's overwhelming, noisy, and ephemeral. It's hard to have a simple conversation, let alone align the globe on a future worth building.
cameronwiese.com • It's time to build: A New World's Fair
Keely Adler and added
The digital dominance of the 21st Century has sorted us into our own tailored versions of online reality, where we drown in ads and information. It's overwhelming, noisy, and ephemeral. It's hard to have a simple conversation, let alone align the globe on a future worth building.
cameronwiese.com • It's time to build: A New World's Fair
Keely Adler added
As builders of a new digital society, we must be equipped with an even more inclusive and visionary concept of what "public" and "good" can mean.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
Keely Adler added
As we have seen in the previous theses, our digital environment:
Regulates our lives towards a smaller number of paths purposely designed by others rather than trails more fortuitous and exploratory.
Builds up a monolithic authentic self rather than a lush set of mutually-enriching contextual identities.
Is heavily focused on categorising people, whic
stealing • Retrofuturism
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