Sparks šļø
To be platform-pilled means that oneās conception of truth is the version that best serves the platforms' goals.1 What we think of as popular, trustworthy, engaging, or even virtuous is filtered through the platforms' logic.
Tara McMullin ⢠"Wait, I think you're platform-pilled"
As economic anthropologist Jason Hickel has explained,āunder capitalism, āgrowthā is not about increasing production to meet human needs. It is about increasing production in order to extract and accumulate profit. That is the overriding objective.ā
Current Affairs ⢠Against Managerialism
Theoretically, a social media feed should heighten awareness and memory, and dilate time, because it selects for content thatās exciting, outrageous, and scary. And yet we seldom remember such content. The reason for this discrepancy is simple: when every post is alarming, your brain quickly becomes desensitised, and starts to interpret alarming... See more
How Social Media Shortens Your Life
In taming the world, we have tamed ourselves
Poetic Outlaws ⢠The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
Leisure, it must be clearly understood, is a mental and spiritual attitudeāit is not simply the result of external factors, it is not the inevitable result of spare time, a holiday, a weekend or a vacation. It is, in the first place, an attitude of mind, a condition of the soul, and as such utterly contrary to the ideal of āworkerā in each and... See more
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
But we donāt always have access to a retreat center, a monastery, or a library, what we do have is this place, a base camp, a landmark for thinking beyond thought.
The metaphor of the base camp is particularly apt for this kind of contemplative scholarship. Like the mountaineerās base campāa place of preparation and return, of gathering resources... See more
The metaphor of the base camp is particularly apt for this kind of contemplative scholarship. Like the mountaineerās base campāa place of preparation and return, of gathering resources... See more