Issue #24: It's a chaotic world. We're just living in it (for now)
by Lore Oxford
added by Keely Adler · updated 2y ago
Issue #24: It's a chaotic world. We're just living in it (for now)
sometimes the most destabilizing chaos isn’t on the world stage. Nor is it a public outrage or even a shared experience.
It’s found instead in the quiet chaos of our everyday lives: making a home, raising a family, putting a meal on the table. These mundane corners of the human experience are also where we find the loosest pockets of culture today:
... See morefrom A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures by Jasmine Bina
Keely Adler added
- In general, whenever human history darkens, this impulse—to obscure meaning, to flatten affect, to don expressive masks—emerges. Chaos erupts, entropy spreads, mistrust multiplies. There’s some occult math at work: Overturn enough treasured assumptions at a proper velocity, and we will begin to doubt even our most basic impulses.
from The Rise of Dissociation Music by Jayson Greene
Keely Adler added
- #1: ON SURREALISM
Why does lunacy and irreverence feel so resonant right now? One of the principles of surrealism is an expression of the absurd in order to question power and I’ve similarly noticed Gen Z quietly raging against the madness of the world with content that is surreal, weird and oft-uncomfortable.from Vol.17: Victoria Buchanan: Surrealism, World Saving Luxury + Fractional Work by Victoria Buchanan
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- “Where we once justified our daily anxieties by doom scrolling through bad news, we now post memes that epitomise our sense of mass existentialism, taking part in a sort of performative negativity that, as a result, protects us against reality,” says Holly Friend, deputy foresight editor at futures consultancy, The Future Laboratory.
from ‘What’s the point?’ syndrome, and why we all feel so disconnected right now by marie-claire chappet
Keely Adler added
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
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- No matter where we live in the world, then, it would be wise for us all to think carefully about the global chaos that is only beginning to consume us all. What is happening? Why is it happening? Where are we headed? What, if anything, can and should we do, individually and collectively?
from The Upheaval by N.S. Lyons
Tom White added
- We’re lost in the garden of forking memes, and the idea of linear progress along a single historical time line seems like a quaint artifact from a much simpler era. Grand visions of the future are few and far between; the pop cultural landscape is littered with post-apocalyptic dystopias. If we want to make sense of how we got here, we have to unde... See more
from The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time by Aaron Z. Lewis
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“Chaos is a different word for risk. Tension and complexity are the differences between safe art and art that's willing to push boundaries and make people nervous or, better yet, question the status quo”
[KAREN WONG_CREATIVE CONSULTANT]
— Age of RelevanceAgalia Tan added