internet culture
We’re seeing the progressive unbundling of human agency in memory creation, and I think it’s happening in clear phases.
The first phase started a very long time ago. Cameras, voice recorders, and digital notebooks were primitive tools for documentation. Sure, each of these tools were enhanced by technology. We chose what to capture and the tools... See more
The first phase started a very long time ago. Cameras, voice recorders, and digital notebooks were primitive tools for documentation. Sure, each of these tools were enhanced by technology. We chose what to capture and the tools... See more
Unbundling memory
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
I’ve come to think there’s a Cultural Doppler Effect.What sounds right in the moment feels different and dated to a time and place later on. This is true of fashion, design, music, beliefs, literally everything.
The Cultural Doppler Effect is what makes “retro.” As past cultural waves wash over us, their context is not as they first appeared. They... See more
The Cultural Doppler Effect is what makes “retro.” As past cultural waves wash over us, their context is not as they first appeared. They... See more
The cultural Doppler effect
Jeff Weinstein (Stripe) – Conversations on Quality (Episode 03)
youtube.comThe 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
I’ve been going deep on antimemetics – or why some ideas spread slowly, or don’t spread at all. It feels like after we got social media, we came up with a bunch of principles around “virality” and “memes” and then never revisited them again.
But ideas don’t spread the same way they did in the early days of Web 2.0. Now, we sometimes deliberately... See more
But ideas don’t spread the same way they did in the early days of Web 2.0. Now, we sometimes deliberately... See more
Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
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
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I use technology in order to hate it more properly. –Nam June Paik https://t.co/8lJQifwyqD