language
Love bombing, gaslighting, and the problem with pathologising dating talk
James Greigdazeddigital.com
Let's reconsider our "users"
jacks.tumblr.comAs we are fed more content, we are pushed deeper into algorithmic niches. In return, we are encouraged to engage with more extreme and polarizing identifiers because it is more labelable, more indexable by the machine — the creation of the “Island". On this island, the slang, in-jokes, and archetypes which emerge as a community develops in... See more
Babelification
Language, as a social instrument, is more than its content. It’s also a signifier defining the speaker. Therefore language, whether expressed as slang, dialects, patois, or accents, is a marker of cultural identity. The language you use signals to other people: am I like you? Do we come from the same place? Do we share perspectives?... See more
Language, as a social instrument, is more than its content. It’s also a signifier defining the speaker. Therefore language, whether expressed as slang, dialects, patois, or accents, is a marker of cultural identity. The language you use signals to other people: am I like you? Do we come from the same place? Do we share perspectives?... See more
And so, while language is necessary, it does a disservice to reality. In attempting to describe the indescribable, words constrain reality. Through simplifications, generalizations, and connotations they mischaracterize and water it down. They fail to capture the complexity, uniqueness, and dynamism of life. And as a result, we never truly see,... See more
The Pursuit
To give birth, to nourish,
to bear and not to own,
to act and not lay claim,
to lead and not to rule:
this is mysterious power.
to bear and not to own,
to act and not lay claim,
to lead and not to rule:
this is mysterious power.
Maria Popova • A Small Dark Light: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Legacy of the Tao Te Ching and What It Continues to Teach Us About Personal and Political Power 2,500 Years...
a term that we often use at
spatial Labs is the term sustainable
Consciousness right denoting to not only
the physical act of being sustainable
but thinking about sustainability as a
way of life right incorporating it into
your daily habits the way you think the
way you speak to others the frequency of
words you use right to as Yoda would say
to do or do... See more
spatial Labs is the term sustainable
Consciousness right denoting to not only
the physical act of being sustainable
but thinking about sustainability as a
way of life right incorporating it into
your daily habits the way you think the
way you speak to others the frequency of
words you use right to as Yoda would say
to do or do... See more
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Iddris Sandu Keynote Speech (CTW '23)
Protagoras observed a strange paradox about language. Despite the perpetual flux and change of the physical world, language lends the mistaken impression that the world is not in flux, that it is stable. As the Presocratic philosopher Empedocles had observed only a few years before, ‘there is no birth for any mortal thing, nor any cursed end in
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