nelli murtazina
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nelli murtazina
Dr. Stibbe’s book, The Stories We Live By, and free online course are full of real-life examples: of economics textbooks that describe people as “consumers” who are driven by an insatiable need to buy; the government documents that position cows and horses as “units” as though they are as lifeless as a kitchen cupboard; and the United Nations’
... See moreDeep Ecology • Why We Need New Words for Nature
The best books put into words the thoughts that are not yet formulated in one’s own head. And those thoughts need to be in a very specific state or condition, for a book to hit. You don’t want a book to tell you what you can already tell yourself. Yet if the book is trying to put into words what you haven’t even fully felt yet, it will not come
... See moreКибернетика как сигнал обратной связи. Диалог между человеком и машиной
В конечном счете, разнообразные проекты автоматизации, возникшие после Второй мировой войны, служат способом управления развивающимися социальными силами, то есть методом организации «революции контроля» (по определению Бенигера) против становящегося все более мятежным общества
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
I am noticing how maxed out people’s mental bandwidth is these days- for every online creator the struggle is very real (subscription fatigue & co.)
Many of us still want to read, comment and engage, but there’s simply too much of everything all the time. And so we mentally “save” it all for “later” that never arrives.
But at the same time, the need... See more
Many of us still want to read, comment and engage, but there’s simply too much of everything all the time. And so we mentally “save” it all for “later” that never arrives.
But at the same time, the need... See more
Anna | BACK TO SENSES • Anna | BACK TO SENSES (@backtosenses)
“When Sontag read Gide’s journals, she identified so deeply with his thinking, she wrote, ‘I am not only reading this book, but creating it myself.’” Reading can offer an experience of communion: a synthesis can occur when the thinking self, or internal monologue, merges with the author’s.
... See moreWe have never been able to document our lives so thoroughly as we now can with the help of digital tools, yet we feel that time is out of joint and that we've lost the thread of both our personal and collective histories. We appear to be both obsessive documenters of our experience, yet largely indifferent to or overwhelmed by the archives we