moneyball

Remi Carlioz calls this the Logged World , where your sense of self only becomes legible through data and metrics. Carlioz coins the Logged World as the modern inversion to what philosopher Edmund Husserl called the Lebenswelt: the lifeworld , the world which is simply there and can only truly be known “through seeing, touching, feeling, hearing... See more

When survival and gain become the only legible orientations, the common world - as Arendt calls it - goes untended.

Philosopher Martin Buber speaks of two types of relationships with the world around us. There is ‘I and Thou’, where we encounter other beings as connected, interwoven and relational to our own lives. Then there’s ‘I and It’, where beings are othered as objects, detached from ourselves and something to be used for our own ends. The voyeuristic... See more

The act without intimacy is the wager. We watch world events unfold from behind the glass, financially invested in outcomes whose only legible meaning comes from whether we win or lose. When context, people and feelings get removed from the equation, what gets surrendered is not only money but the very capacity to be implicated in the world you’re... See more

What emerges is a system where intimacy is reframed as economics, and selfhood becomes something to trade. And while it presents itself as rational, even strategic, it ultimately functions as another form of performance: engineered for attention, sustained by anxiety, and constantly escalating.

It’s hard not to see this as a kind of cultural... See more

That environment doesn’t produce “nihilism.” It produces rational repositioning.

If the expected value of the traditional path collapses, people move further out on the risk curve. Not because they’re delusional, but because they can do basic math.

This is not to say that influencers such as Clavicular deserve no blame for their choices—only that they have come of age in a media environment where fealty to an audience and online performance seem so second nature that they adopt the logic of the attention economy by default. Making content becomes one’s only belief structure. The Claviculars... See more

“I think there’s this fear that if you become scientific about something, you’ll figure out that your feelings are unjustified and then you’ll experience this horrible thing: ‘I’m afraid of this, but I’m sort of being forced by my logical mind to believe this thing.’

I don’t think this is true at all.

I think your feelings are there for a reason.... See more