web as performance
how social media rewires our brains for performance/audience/vanity, not connection
andrea and
web as performance
Why TikTok star Ana Wolfermann is ready to leave influencing for a 9-to-5 job | Fortune
Jane Thierfortune.com
The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonate with, and if we’re lucky, some part of the world might too.
the metrics, outward success, markers of “making it”, numbers, likes, popularity, visibility, praise or criticism or being ignored, awards, highlights, or trajectory that might come from what we make don’t matter much if we aren’t enjoying the process of making what we make.
This is what the internet was always meant to be. A resource for learning. It’s so simple, but we forget.
Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium? What is the meaning of the word "1"?
Achilles and Tortoise engage in a philosophical dialogue exploring concepts of free will, identity, and consciousness within a metaphorical framework of marbles and symmballs in a careenium, illustrating complex mental processes.
legacy.cs.indiana.eduthe origina of “I” - wow
Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture
medium.com
Our Instagram feeds professionalised: the quality of photography improved, the captions were strategically wittier. The relationship to our real lives became more complicated.
How to Fall in Love With a System: Coziness as a Catalyst for Participatory Agency
aw.network