Media & Culture
Using media to think deeply about complex issues
by Tara McMullin and · updated 8d ago
Media & Culture
- By the time the Voice had assumed its current semi-undead form, following a 2020 resurrection, the creeping irrelevance of any bounded and singular context—including that of a town, much less “the biggest media town in America”—had become the kind of thing a person might fail to notice while engaged in the ruthless business of noticing everything e... See more
from How the Village Voice Met Its Moment by Michelle Orange
Brian Thomas Clark added 3mo ago
- What my students seek is what I sought: not just a place to publish, of which there remain plenty, but a place to aspire to, the kind of established, vital ecosystem within which a writer can learn, play, feud, create meaning, spark conversation, make sense of herself and her world. Rare by definition, such things grow more elusive by the day.
from How the Village Voice Met Its Moment by Michelle Orange
Brian Thomas Clark added 3mo ago
- Savior Complex is a slyly simplistic title.
from Savior Complex Doubles Down
Tara McMullin added 8mo ago
- Reaching wide audiences requires all-terrain language, and the urgency of the present moment, amplified by chronological feeds, doesn’t allow for much stylistic variety. Efficiency is key — compressing as much information as possible to the least amount of words is the ideal of all communication.
While I do agree that many areas of interaction, like... See moreEmily Sokolow added 3mo ago
- Although repetition is necessary, practice isn’t just repetition. When we practice, we do two things: we isolate a technique for study, and we engage with difficulty.
from Why Write in Form? by Rebecca Hazelton | Poetry Foundation
Tara McMullin added 5mo ago
- I think the defining economic reality of the modern platform media world is that all the platforms realized that an infinite supply of teenage creators are cheaper to deal with than media companies or groups of media individuals or powerful creators. And I’m curious for your read on the number of YouTubers that you see retiring or taking a step bac... See more
from NilayPatel tells Decoder guest host Hank Green why blogs are still great by Nilay Patel
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Sarah Drinkwater added 6mo ago
the stakes for preserving our relationship to things that cannot immediately be had have never felt higher. After all, yearning is a subset of authenticity––a specific type of authenticity that comes from wanting. It’s the thing that we turn to after too easily “having” causes us to lose our way. Yearning isn’t like wellness in the way Gwyneth Paltrow or Andrew Huberman would sell wellness because it often feels like unwellness, but then it also feels like healing.
- Research as a way of life is having the ability and the time to question the world around you and add to its understanding. It’s defined by our access and ability to contribute to production of knowledge and evaluate the information around us.
from Research As A Way of Life
Tara McMullin added 23d ago
- What’s more, art is no longer semblance. It fuses with reality.
from Walter Benjamin: Art, Aura and Authenticity | Ceasefire Magazine by Andy McLaverty-Robinson
Tara McMullin added 3mo ago