Information Ecology
Stuart Evans and
Information Ecology
AR In Undinge you write, ‘We save masses of data, yet never return to the memories. We accumulate friends and followers, without encountering an other.’ Similar incantations were heard at the time of the invention of the letterpress and later newspaper and television... Could it be that you are catastrophising the situation?
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Byung-Chul Han: “I Practise Philosophy as Art”
Sunday Reads #170: Lemon markets, dark forests, and a firehose of malicious garbage.
Jitha Thathacharijitha.substack.com
Alternate reality games dictate what is and is not important in the unending deluge of information — what gets points and what doesn’t. What falls outside of or challenges the story of a given game is not so much disputed as ignored, and whatever fits neatly within it is highlighted.
The New Atlantis • Reality Is Just a Game Now
Well written piece that perfectly describes the meta crisis
What can we trust? Why is the 'information ecology' so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy? This is a fundamental question, because without good sensemaking, we cannot even begin to act in the world. It is also a central concern in what many are calling the "meaning crisis", because what is meaningful is connected to what is real.