Time Is The New Space
“The Big Flat Now is the infinite space on which our culture operates today. Its frictionless surface is composed of the obsolete hierarchies that have been melted by the Internet. Its shallowness belies a seamless texture that allows for the rapid collision of ideas,” write Thom Bettridge and Lucas Mascatello in 032c. “Raised by a global chorus of... See more
As the internet grows in size, we feel like we’re surrounded by people and lonely at the same time. It feels increasingly harder to feel safe expressing ourselves authentically in the predominant gathering spaces. We feel like we’re either invisible or presenting at an auditorium. Things have to be more explicit, black-and-white in the new world. Y... See more
Spencer Chang • tiny internets: sidewalks, geocaching, and more · tiny internets
We’re in the midst of a significant evolution in what it means to be an individual. This experience and confluence of forces is what I call post-individualism — a term intended to capture the ways computers and the web have changed our sense of self and how society is changing in response.
The Post-Individual
The transfer of the self’s setting from bodies to communication systems
Nicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
the changing texture of material culture in digital society and the attendant consequences for how we experience the continuity of the self.
enduring relationships anchor our identity or our sense of self.
The self is not exactly fixed. It undoubtedly evolves over time, it is multi-faceted, and, critically, it escapes our full comprehension. All of t... See more
enduring relationships anchor our identity or our sense of self.
The self is not exactly fixed. It undoubtedly evolves over time, it is multi-faceted, and, critically, it escapes our full comprehension. All of t... See more