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Trumpism as Grief Culture
- This isn’t the same kind of attention we give to our Instagram and TikTok feeds. It is a ritualised form of intentional presence directed to a shared sense of meaning and history.
As a result, our digital commons has become commoditised and overrun by the cult of self. When we shout ‘listen!’ on social media, we are demanding that others ‘Listen to... See morefrom Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It by Alexander Beiner
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- In a still-raging pandemic and cascade of atrocities, there’s a governmental and cultural push to rush through grief, to get back to business and move on. A cultural “correction” of time, to get back on the “right track.”
from Time is Water by Annika Hansteen-Izora
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