weekly Go Flip Yourself
roundup links to share every week on k7v.in and flana.substack.com
weekly Go Flip Yourself
Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Culture: An Owner's Manualculture.ghost.io
The French modernists loathed and loved the mass media of their day | Aeon Essays
Max McGuinnessaeon.co
In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling:
Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, licentiousness, torture, crimes of princes, crimes of nations, individual crimes, an intoxicating spree of universal atrocity.
And it’s this disgusting aperitif that the civilised man consumes at breakfast each morning … I do not understand how a pure hand can touch a newspaper without a convulsion of disgust.
reframing 'sustainability'
There is a new lifestyle imposed on almost the entire world, (...) which somehow affects all ordinary people: a consumption-oriented life. Fast consumption, constant consumption, more consumption.
