The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
Aaron Z. Lewisaaronzlewis.comSaved by Sixian and
The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
As the soft circles of memory open and close, we regain time. The chaos melds back together with choices, yielding a sovereign, unpredictable self. The machines corral us in harder pens: race, sex, income, residence. They define us by our most probable states, by what we do online or under surveillance, not by what we do on the mountaintops or unde
... See moreTimothy Snyder • On Freedom
Today, we are nostalgists as much as we are futurists. The new technology enables the simultaneous experience and enactment of events from a multiplicity of positions. Far from signalling its demise, these emergent networks facilitate the democratisation of history, illuminating the forking paths along which its grand narratives may navigate the he
... See moreLuke Turner • Metamodernist // Manifesto
Sometimes online communities make wikis or YouTube explainers to keep track of certain storylines, but many seem to persist without ever being recorded. Shared memory is often maintained in ways that don’t translate to the readable archives produced by print-based textual tradition. On some level, this feels paradoxical, like the internet should ac... See more