Chad "Curly" Hall
@chadhall
reckless, undisciplined researcher
casual cultural critic
app experiencer
one foot in the weird
Chad "Curly" Hall
drunkonideas.carrd.co
The reason the death of Google Reader matters, here, is that it marks a pivotal moment in the deliberate and engineered shrinking of the internet. When Google Reader died, article discovery shifted. People were no longer reading RSS feeds, finding new sites, following them, and being updated when those sites posted. Instead, they were scrolling on
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The muse and angel come from outside us: the angel gives lights, and the muse gives forms (Hesiod learned from her). Loaf of gold or tunic fold: the poet receives forms in his grove of laurel. But one must awaken the duende in the remotest mansions of the blood.
from In Search of Duende by Federico García Lorca
The duende, then, is a power, not a work. It is a struggle, not a thought.
from In Search of Duende by Federico García Lorca
By the 1980s, Acker had also developed a rigorous editing method: She said that she rewrote every book eight times (!), each time with a different criteria in mind: “once for sound, once for meaning, once for ‘beauty’, once for structure, once in the mirror for performativity etc.”
from Kathy Acker Was Against Creativity by Mason Currey
- It’s better for authors to think persistently and write occasionally than the other way around.
from [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast by Applied Divinity Studies
The problem is not merely homogeneity of topic, but homogeneity of substance. If you have to publish a newsletter every week, you don’t have the room or incentive to take risks.
from [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast by Applied Divinity Studies
This was the case of Eleonora Duse, possessed by duende, who looked for plays that had failed so she could make them triumph thanks to her own inventions…
from In Search of Duende by Federico García Lorca
This reminds me of Kathy Acker stealing passages and making them her own.
The biographer Jason McBride writes:
Acker loved to talk about bodybuilding in terms of failure, noting that a weight lifter could only build new muscle by first breaking it down, by pushing it past the point of failure. She saw in this an analogy for her own writing process. Language, for her, was also about collapse and creation.
from Kathy Acker Was Against Creativity by Mason Currey
RSS has been pronounced dead over and over again, yet it is still not dead and I doubt that it ever will be. In fact, it is witnessing a little comeback from time to time. Personally, I have started to use it more regularly again and others have, too. RSS is a great way to follow the people whose posts, ideas, and opinions matter to you.
from Into the Personal-Website-Verse by Matthias Ott
RSS is and always has been superior to social media. There's no scrambling to see what you might have missed. There's no hunting. It's all there ready for you to read it when at YOUR pace. (I'd add Readwise Reader to this list. It's my choice.) RSS has only failed to be the dominate source of curation because of advertising. Companies cannot inject advertising into your RSS feed, the way they can in a social feed. Their business model fails without that. Perhaps it's time we realized that social media companies are third-party interlopers who have injected themselves into the relationship between writer and reader, in the same way scammers and get rich quick gurus into our carefully curated feeds.