Two months til Filterworld / a new project
A humanism that responds to the collapse of Big Authenticity will be sexier . As Magdalene Taylor recently wrote, “Real things and actual human experiences are hot, even in the written form. They have a libidinal energy that’s been drained from us in the current technological era. And we’re going to want to get that energy back.”
Daisy Alioto • Yearn in Review
These things are the opposite of scalable and replicable. Live culture is finite. It exists in the moment and then it’s gone, except perhaps for the artifacts of digital content it leaves behind, spun off into TikTok, relied on to advertise what already happened and convey the aura of realness, building hype for next time. (Substack held a reading... See more
Kyle Chayka • 🟧 Temporal realness is the hottest commodity
Long before AI entered the chat, years of dopamine flatlining and compulsive self-curation had worn down the boundary between the real and the rendered.
Amy Francombe • The year we became slop
... See moreFilterworld consist of one fundamental, unavoidable reality: never in human history have so many people experienced the same things, the same pieces of content disseminated instantly through the feeds, to our individual screens. Every consequence flows from that fact.
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To resist Filterworld, we must become our own curators once more and take