field notes
thoughts, observations, insights, speculations, provocations, imaginations
field notes
The internet does its thing – I do mine and (try to) make some sense of it all:
Higher Stakes / Emerging
Including: a 34-part series of an ADHD coach TikTok alleging psychiatrist manipulation; creators pushing impulse-buy "wish lists."
Higher Stakes / Mainstream_... See more
Mara Dettmannsubstack.com
The print era tied authority to expertise and institutional backing. Television shifted credibility toward charisma and visual presentation. Social media has rewritten the rules again: trust is no longer about expertise, but about performance. This environment fosters the rise of the TikTok Oracle, where complex cultural critiques are distilled int... See more
Nikita Walia • The Rise of the TikTok Oracle
Technology changes our remembrance of the past, our experience of the present, and our imagination of the future by blurring the lines between the three categories, and introducing different forms of understanding and meaning-making to all three – We remember the future, imagine the present, and experience the past. The phenomenon of “ruin porn” is... See more
