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DAN KOE • A dopamine detox to reset your life in 30 days
Even the language has gone stale. We don’t talk about portfolios or bodies of work or essays anymore. We talk about content. That word... sterilized, corporate, utterly devoid of soul, is the final nail in the coffin. “Content” doesn’t demand you to think or to feel; it demands you to engage. It’s not meant to last. It’s meant to loop.
Jared Thomas Tapy • The Problem with Instagram Photography Culture
Art, by nature, is supposed to be reckless. It’s supposed to make you uncomfortable, make you question something, even piss you off a little. But risk doesn’t trend well. Risk doesn’t get saved, shared, or reinterpreted into brand collaborations. So we self-censor. We trim the fat, smooth the flaws, kill the chaos. We sand down the edges until the... See more
Jared Thomas Tapy • The Problem with Instagram Photography Culture
Instagram didn’t kill photography. It just franchised it. Turned the quiet craft of seeing into a 24-hour buffet of self-promotion and emotional fast food. Everyone got a camera, a platform, and a craving for attention. What used to be an art of observation became an industry of performance.
The Problem with Instagram Photography Culture
Our skin aches for mornings that begin with the light of dawn and not that of a screen. Before our feet touch the earth, our eyes have already wandered into someone else’s world. We didn’t notice when we stopped living and began watching others. We’ve become spectators of everyone and participants in nothing of our own.
the hunger to be everything.
“…post-literate world favors demagogues skilled at code-switching between the elite language of policy and the populist one of meme-slop. It favors oligarchs with good social media game and those with more self-assurance than integrity. It does not favor those with little money, little political power and no one to speak up for them.”
The algorithm is like a moody god, it demands sacrifice. You give it your best work, your time, your sleep, your joy, and in return, it offers you a few fleeting seconds of attention. Then it forgets you exist.
Jared Thomas Tapy • The Problem with Instagram Photography Culture
Everything is a fake orgasm now: everything is effect over experience.