internet culture
The social standard this culture offers is one of controlled, placated solitude. Its narrative often insists that you’re surrounded by toxic people who are trying to hurt you, and the only way to ever become the person you’re meant to be is to cut them all off, retreat into a high-gloss cocoon of talk therapy and Notion templates, and emerge a... See more
rayne fisher-quann • no good alone - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess no good alone
maybe more social media culture
Agentic software designs for and explicitly allows user-made desire paths and folk-usages of software. People will use software in whatever informal, distributed ways that emerge from real world contexts. Folksonomies are a great example of these informal taxonomies developed by users on social sharing platforms. Tumblr tags, for example, have... See more
Agentic Computing
the internet is the precarious reservation onto which culture has been driven, bleak and uncanny, inhuman in scale.
Simplicio • The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth
hans bertens “if there is a common denominator for all these post modernisms, it is that of a crisis in representation, a deeply felt lost faith in our ability to represent the real in the widest sense, no matter whether they are aesthetic, epistemological, political in nature, the representations which we used to rely on can no longer be taken for
... See moreIt is not a critical approach towards values, policy, nor the subsequent consequences of these artifacts. We experience our political landscape through the veneer of our “ discourse interfaces” (that’s a Reggie phrase) .
Political Expectations
If technology-inflected solitarist identity makes it difficult or impossible to identify and admire heroes, saints and sages, then it will be difficult or impossible for us to learn how to live well in the digital age.
Tim Gorichanaz • Finding Heroes In A Messy Digital World | NOEMA
If a simplistic description of AI is computers learning to be more human, then the persistence of Hawk Tuah for six months and counting is the inverse: Humans learning how it feels to be a computer—forced to remember, unable to move on, endlessly consuming and regurgitating our past output in slightly different formats—a video here, a podcast... See more