web as performance
how social media rewires our brains for performance/audience/vanity, not connection
by andrea and · updated 18d ago
web as performance
alex added 1y ago
“It’s uncomfortable being two: me for me and me for others.”
A Breath of Life (Um sopro de vida), Clarice Lispector
andrea added 9mo ago
phoebe added 1y ago
This is what the internet was always meant to be. A resource for learning. It’s so simple, but we forget.
sari added 8mo ago
alex added 7mo ago
people think the solution to the web becoming a big performance stage is to have lots of fragmented smaller communities. But finding the right community is really hard. A better way is to use novel technologies and network mechanics to matchmake in real-time. You get a new community every second depending on what you’re thinking.
sari added 1y ago
- There 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 e... See more
from Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram? by Tavi Gevinson
sari added 1y ago
Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture
phoebe added 1y ago
Our Instagram feeds professionalised: the quality of photography improved, the captions were strategically wittier. The relationship to our real lives became more complicated.Are you not tired?
Of standing for nothing
Of falling for everything
Alara added 1y ago