the world is a museum of obsessions https://t.co/OiQEmX8neR
attention + curation = taste
In short, the architecture of digital platforms has made us obsessive documenters and consumers of the present, yet largely indifferent to the archives we create.
Adam Grant • Check Your Pulse #55
Digital memory is ubiquitous yet unimaginably fragile, limitless in scope yet inherently unstable.
Abby Smith Rumsey • When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future
capital demands design address the hyper-specific moment of The Now; the site of consumption, of transaction. Thats all it cares for; where it eats. But we all live in the permanent ruins of what is created for that moment. designers should design them instead. that is our world.
24/7 denotes the wreckage of the day as much as it concerns the extinguishing of darkness and obscurity.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
The everyday madness perpetuated by the internet is the madness of this architecture, which positions personal identity as the center of the universe. It’s as if we’ve been placed on a lookout that oversees the entire world and given a pair of binoculars that makes everything look like our own reflection. Through social media, many people have quic
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