words matter
Being a writer she thinks of language partly as a system, partly as a living thing over which one has control, but mostly as agency – as an act with consequences.
Toni Morrison – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org
the online trend that links all of these disparate digi subcultures together: namecore, AKA the internet’s insatiable appetite for naming things.
Olive Pometsey • Namecore is the trend that unifies all trends
In December of 2022, British contemporary artist Es Devlin installed a public sculpture in concert with the Endangered Language Alliance, “Your Voices,” outside of New York’s Lincoln Center. The work responds to anthropologist Wade Davis’s observation: “Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Start by releasing AI from the limiting mental model of “technology.” Start thinking of AI as talent, not tech.
Mike Arauz • August Newsletter: Start Thinking of AI as Talent, Not Tech. 🤖
As modernity took shape, the function of language shifted. We began to divide.
Anna Branten • The Collapse of Communication
“Quiet Quitting” started as a way for Gen-Zers to communicate with each other the reality that you can, in fact, not sublimate your entire identity and all of your time to a job and not get fired…..that you can just treat your job as a j-o-b, not as the sole determent of your value as a person…and that you can especially do this if your job treats
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting - by Anne Helen Petersen Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
Language works when two people’s associations overlap enough. When their worlds drift too far apart, it falters. We hear the same words, but they spark different images. The conversation comes undone. We think we’re communicating with words, but we’re really communicating our entire worlds.
When a society loses its shared stories, it also loses its
... See moreAnna Branten • The Collapse of Communication
On one hand, there is an importance in gaining clarity when you name certain things. On the other hand, there is a danger that you lose all nuance, that you’re basically trying to elevate your personal comments and personal experience by invoking the higher authority of psychobabble