ritual
Companies like Crossfit and Soulcycle create a sense of consistent space and ritual that inculcate deep loyalty and community among their participants. Reimagine, an organization that describes itself as “the world’s leading end-of-life events platform,” hosts paid gatherings and festivals related to death and healing. Casper ter Kuille and Angie T
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Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- Most important of all, perhaps, during rituals we have the experience, unique in our culture, of neither opposing nature or trying to be in communion with nature; but of finding ourselves within nature, and that is the key to sustainable culture.
from Ritual is Essential by Dolores LaChapelle
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
Even if you know what it feels like to be completely open to where your curiosity wants you to go, like Grothendieck, it is a fragile state. It often takes considerable work to keep the creative state from collapsing, especially as your work becomes successful and the social expectations mount. When I listen to interviews with creative people or re
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Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- The largest companies today are obsessed with generating content in a completely de-ritualized context. But content always exists in tension with form. Ritual is the form we have abandoned in our relentless quest for content.
from 13 Observations on Ritual by Ted Gioia
sari added 7mo ago
addictive scrolling and swiping can never achieve the sense of closure and boundedness we all crave.
What interests him is the exhibition as ritual. "A crowd of people is not a crowd but rather a number of individuals gathered in a space who are, contra the experience of an opera or a theatrical performance, not subject to a collective control of attention....Attention is neither monopolized nor homogenized. The exhibition is a very democrati
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Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- We need ritual technology. Technology designed for ritual use.
Why? Most of the software we use daily is designed to engagement-max. Social media feeds, loot boxes, compulsion loops, gang gang yes yes yes ice cream so good. You’re caught in a feedback loop with the algorithm, and you are the squishiest part of that loop.
Ritual technology operates on... See morefrom Ritual Technology by Gordon Brander
sari added 10mo ago
- when you create a social reality with no connection to a deeper divine essence, and not alignment to a value greater than itself, you get lost in a maze where essential human values and relationships are mimicked endlessly and blindly in a chaos of hollow repetition. Then, as now, the only way out is to connect to the sacred; to an experience that ... See more
from Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It by Alexander Beiner
sari added 1y ago
In a survey of 1,000 adults, it was found that 30% of people were eating dinner on the couch, and 17% of people were eating it in their bedrooms—two places where there is likely a screen and likely no conversation or interpersonal gathering. Remember that rooms have rules, and when we change the room, we create a vacuum of norms.
from A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures by Jasmine Bina
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- Ritual provides us with a tool for learning to think logically, analogically and ecologically as we move toward a sustainable culture.
from Ritual is Essential by Dolores LaChapelle
Stuart Evans added 1y ago