Curation Is King
things to help a percolating idea about the future in a world of infinite culture…
by James Stevens · updated 11h ago
Curation Is King
- "There has never been more TV to watch. At any given time, you can stream shows old and new from platforms as wide-ranging as Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Peacock, and Amazon Prime, or you can indulge in a more niche service like Shudder (for horror fans) or Acorn (for British programming). If you find yourself paralyzed by the sheer wealth of content, ... See more
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- The difference between schools and libraries
From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education (via Austin Kleon):To begin with, libraries are usually comfortable, clean, and quiet. They are orderly places where you can actually read instead of just pretending to read.
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For some reason libraries are never age-segregated, nor do tfrom robertogreco by robertogreco
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- Modern aspiration is not about having money to buy things, but having taste to know what to buy.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
from Zadie Smith - Feel Free.pdf by Paul Schmitt
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- Mia Quagliarello:
I started to use this service called Chatbooks and forcing myself that you can make a monthly photo book from your phone images, a physical book. So it forces me every month to pick 30 items. And some of them are screenshots too. I'm just trying not to be too precious about it. But I feel like if I have a physical book that For now... See morefrom Reader
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- As T Bone Burnett once said, “Major labels figured out that catering to people who don’t need music in their lives makes them more money.” Passive streaming is a prime example—when music plays in the background at shops, hairdressers, or when Spotify keeps going after you’ve fallen asleep. Major labels don’t pay for these streams but heavily invest... See more
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- What we’re not noticing enough is the fact that algorithms have flattened our cultural landscape and induced a sense of passivity and numbness, challenging our capacity to engage deeply or be genuinely curious.
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- This shift towards a global sameness, driven by digital platforms' algorithms, challenges the very notion of personal taste. As these platforms prioritize content or products that resonate on a mass scale, they nudge us toward a homogenized cultural landscape. The result is a world where diversity of thought and creativity often gets drowned out by... See more
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- Introduced by the author Kyle Chayka, the term ‘Filterworld’ encapsulates the phenomenon of uniformity shaped by the invisible hand of digital algorithms. In this digital age, algorithms are the unseen curators, dictating the content you consume and influencing your tastes, relationships, and the fabric of your daily life through interfacing platfo... See more
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