internet surrealism
The internet has become a series of lacunas, spaces where content used to be.
s.e. smith • What happens when the internet disappears?
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
or an entire generation, the imagination of people making the web has been hemmed in by the control of a handful of giant companies that have had enormous control over things like search results, or app stores, or ad platforms, or payment systems. Going back to the more free-for-all nature of the Nineties internet could mean we see a proliferation... See more
Anil Dash • The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
#1: ON SURREALISM
Why does lunacy and irreverence feel so resonant right now? One of the principles of surrealism is an expression of the absurd in order to question power and I’ve similarly noticed Gen Z quietly raging against the madness of the world with content that is surreal, weird and oft-uncomfortable.
Why does lunacy and irreverence feel so resonant right now? One of the principles of surrealism is an expression of the absurd in order to question power and I’ve similarly noticed Gen Z quietly raging against the madness of the world with content that is surreal, weird and oft-uncomfortable.
Matt Klein • Vol.17: Victoria Buchanan: Surrealism, World Saving Luxury + Fractional Work
How a wall of groovy lava lamps help encrypt the internet at the 📍Cloudflare Headquaters in San Francisco.
If the site you’re visiting is encrypted by cybersecurity firm Cloudflare, your activity just might be protected by nothing other than a wall of lava lamps. The company has technology that monitors the lava lamps’... See more
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