The myth of the perfect, clean workspace
a moodboard on the performance of perfection and the mess of creative work.
The myth of the perfect, clean workspace
Maybe one of the biggest problems with the internet is we post what we think we see and then cite ourselves as the evidence that that thing is reality.
Kyle Harrison • Toil We Must
I was talking to a younger friend about this a while back—your Internet presence is increasingly more valuable than your real-life presence. Which is weird and dystopian and I don’t really know how to think about it. But it’s true, and I think people who are like, I don’t need the Internet , don’t understand the extent to which much of the
... See moreAva • life on the internet
You see, I have always found it difficult to understand that in fact one can only be oneself. Who else could you be? Changeability and hypocrisy and performance are parts of who we are. And what is empirical reality, anyway?
Matthew J. C. Clark • Bjarki, Not Bjarki
Identity is contextual and, if we are to live, breathe, and grow, it has to remain contextual. The Internet of the “authentic self” — a loathsome, aberrant idea if there ever was one — is an exercise in slowly getting strangled by your past selves.
Robin Berjon • Retrofuturism
So we may need to think of ourselves as always living a double life, the one that we wish for and the one that we practice; the one that never happens and the one that keeps happening.