building a better garden
Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a Gothic church beaming serenity into you—that is input too.
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to m... See more
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to m... See more
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
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“nodal points,” the idea that important people, places, ideas, references etc. have shaped the direction of my life and how I see myself
are.na • An Interview With Emily Segal
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A garden is made up of the following parts:
Seeds: the content contributed by gardeners,
such as text, photos, video, audio, or other digital media.
Gardeners: the users that invest in tending to and growing the garden.
Soil: the framework, meaning the design system and processes the garden is rooted in.
Elements for growth (such as water, sunlight, and
... See moreOn Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
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When you choose whom to follow on Twitter, you’re choosing what types of mindsets and aesthetics to expose yourself to on a regular basis. You’re choosing what types of conversations to have. You’re choosing to be reminded regularly of certain things, and not of others. This is a kind of Programmable attention.
Programmable attention
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The issue with even this “trend” is that so much of cultural critique today remains observational.
Problematic considering the tiny narrative bubbles we’re each in.
Without layering any quantitative analysis into our stories, fads remain just reactions to reactions. Emptiness.
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How do we spot ‘glimmers’ of the futures we all dream of? What forms of knowledge, and whose voices do we need to be attuned to, to ensure we are seeing these possibilities for what they are?
JRF • Emerging Futures: An Update
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