Relationship with Time
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Relationship with Time
The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
Aaron Z. Lewisaaronzlewis.comWe very often do not have the time to create what we need by ourselves. It’s reasonable to ask who on Earth is expected to return our emails or make our dinners while we wile away our time crafting. We’ve increased the distance between ourselves and the things we need or want—and also made for ourselves a steeper learning curve for meeting our own... See more
Redefining "Handy" and Learning How to Make Things
You need to let yourself have time! The effects are intangible but so so important
The internet embodies this carnival temporality with startling clarity:
• Cyclical bursts : meme cycles, outrage waves, and news frenzies erupt, fade, and return with variation.
• Inversions : anonymous users become viral, while experts, CEOs, and politicians are mocked, parodied, or dethroned.
• Acceleration & simultaneity : the timeline collapses
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Mirrors and clocks transformed society, but they’re so old that nobody questions them.
Clocks created a culture of anxiety.
Mirrors created a culture of narcissism.
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