added by sari · updated 2y ago
Real Talk: Digital Objects & Ephemeral Selves
- Digital discourse creates a game-like structure in our perception of reality. For everything that happens, every fact we gather, every interpretation of it we provide, we have an ongoing ledger of the “points” we could garner by posting about it online. Sometimes, something will happen in real life that provides such an outstanding move in the game... See more
from Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis by Jon Askonas
Stuart Evans added
- the point of life is other people. I agree with David Rudnick’s diagnosis that we’ve moved from “digital dualism,“ falsely asserting the Internet was “not real life,” to what he calls “digital prime,” realizing the Internet is perhaps the most space we have. But this means there will be a new insistence that URL serve IRL—not replace it.
from The Tinderization of the Internet by Sean Monahan
sari added
- The story of a human retreat from this world, either to the stars above or the virtual realm within, can mask a disregard for or resignation about what is done with the world we do have, both in terms of the structures of human societies and the non-human world within which they are rooted. Put another way, we might say that imagining the digital s... See more
from Thresholds of Artificiality by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Alex Wittenberg added