context is queen
The way we see things is always affected by what we know or believe. Nietzsche said something else fitting to this: “Ultimately no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. What one has no access through experience one has no ear for.”
Ida Josefiina • What We See and What We Know
If you listened to a piece of music and assessed that piece of music by how many A notes or B notes were played, you would miss the music if you piled up all the rests and rhythmic info you would miss the music. The music is in the notes rhythms and silences, but it is also in the memories of your life the impressions the music brings up for you,
... See moreIn the old world of broadcast communication that Naomi Klein wrote about, promotion was limited to a few channels, so multinationals with massive advertising budgets had the power to sell a brand monoculture. Now every night, on Twitter, on Instagram, on TikTok, we scroll and see brands smushed up next to real people in the feed. Branding
... See moreToby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
What matters more is how we relate with memory, that is to say how we look back to understand our history and retroactively give meaning and context to our lives
Ida Josefiina • What We See and What We Know
The true influence of Post Internet People on general internet socialization was both more subtle and more important than simply a shiny new social networking site. By joining the social internet after their parents were already there, they faced an especially dire version of “context collapse.” This is danah boyd’s term for when people from all
... See moreGretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
it's the totality of those “nodal points” that indicate one’s own unique perspective. It doesn’t matter if you specifically sought out the nodal point or not, it’s the recognition that counts. When you encounter a piece of life-changing information (no matter how large the change part is), you are simultaneously discovering and creating “yourself,”
... See moreare.na • On Motivation
The real flat-earthers are the ones who make life into a flat-description. it will not serve now.
Nora Bateson, Combining
Context accumulates rather than depletes. "As time passes, insight expands, and even more context comes into view." Understanding that deepens rather than uses up. The opposite of consume.
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The menu is an abstraction of the food. It is about the food—but it is not the food. Eating the menu makes for a flat and papery meal. The meal, by contrast, is interlocked within the vegetable garden, the culture of the chef, the conversation at the table, the nature of the occasion, the farmer's children, and the health of the prior and coming
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