If The Internet Was A Place
if the internet was a physical place, what would we want it to feel like? look like? be like?
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If The Internet Was A Place
my social feeds seemed to finish their years-long transformation from a neighborhood populated with friends to a glossy condo development of brands.
Anne Helen Petersen • Culture Study | Anne Helen Petersen | Substack
A park bench allows for a sense of solitude and community at the same time, a simultaneity that’s crucial to life in a city
People don’t exist independently of a place. Places bring out who we are.
via Jonathan Haidt
i wish earth was more like a library. ppl speaking in soft voices on the streets everything shared and borrowed.
“We want to think of the internet as a physical place. It is not about making the virtual physical, but rather to argue that the virtual also exists physically.”
- Woon Tien Wei
- Woon Tien Wei
NET ART ANTHOLOGY: alpha 3.4
Imagine if instead of approaching our computer as a cold, mechanical piece of metal and glass that receives inputs and delivers outputs, we saw it as a relationship with the emergent, ineffable internet mystic that we’re collectively creating.
How might we approach that device differently?
How might we approach that device differently?
Dan Hunt • Internet as Practice
Nowhere But Here: Femi Adeyemi on the Possibilities for Placemaking over the Airwave — Deem
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