learnings
Jean-Paul Sartre, damn https://t.co/xTKtipgoCE
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“creativity under capitalism is not creative at all because it only produces more of the same,” as Oli Mould puts it in Against Creativity
Cortney Cassidy • A soft manifesto
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To the earth, millennia-old etchings might count as ephemera left behind by an ephemeral people, who were once thought to be extinct only to be reborn centuries later.
Ephemera: A Rock Collection
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from ‘Ephemera: A Rock Collection,’ by Michelle Santiago Cortés.
The ongoing collapse of advertising revenue within the creative media landscape certainly exacerbates the issue, with publications forced to rely on reader subscriptions, sponsored content, or pay-for-play coverage to fund their platforms – two out of three of which limit any negative feedback almost entirely.
“I picked a bad time to become a critic” – Elizabeth Goodspeed on the collapse of design critique
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a river’s right to flow with clean, cool water is not something we should just aim to protect; rather, we should aim to empower the river with its own tools and resources so that, in a way, it can protect it self
A New Order of Regenerative Kinship
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from “A New Order of Regenerative Kinship”
One's ability to articulate an idea always lags behind the understanding of the idea, and the understanding of an idea often lags behind the embodiment in which it is first given life. It can take a surprising amount of time to come to understand what a prototype is trying to "say", and longer still to say it oneself.
-Bret Victor
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In the post-hipster era, you listened to what Spotify told you to listen to. If you read a book, it was because the precise pattern of blobby pastel-coloured shapes on its cover contained coded instructions to TikTok’s algorithm that sent it zooming to the top of your feed. Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline machin... See more
Sam Kriss • All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
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