tech + internet
One of the saddest things to me is the cultural decay cycle in our new age of virality.
Sub-cultures that took years to form through meaning are essentially destroyed within days or weeks.
If you think about it, a niche culture builds their own language, symbols, aesthetics or rituals to... See more
Tobias van Schneiderx.com
The overall digital environment is dictated by tech companies with ruthlessly capitalist, expansionary motives, which do not provide the most fertile ground for culture. While the magazine fashion editor may periodically use their ability to pick out and promote a previously unheard voice, the algorithmic feed never will; it can only iterate on
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
In a world where it seems like everyone is always online, a group of Brooklyn teens are promoting a lifestyle of self-liberation from social media and technology.
Founded last year by Edward R. Murrow High School student Logan Lane, the Luddite Club is named after Ned Ludd, the folkloric 18th-century English textile... See more
instagram.comThere are plenty of well-documented reasons to distrust Instagram — the platform where one is never not branding, never not making Facebook money, never not giving Facebook one’s data — but most unnerving are the ways in which it has led me to distrust myself. After countless adventures through the black hole, my propensity to share, perform, and... See more
Tavi Gevinson • Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram?
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