Daniela Detera
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Daniela Detera
This customization made possible by our “always-online society” can also have negative effects: people have become more prone to becoming anxious when either physical or virtually disconnected from others and it puts us all in a state of mutual surveillance. So, on the one hand, there is the feeling of always wanting to be connected to somebody, an... See more
404 - e-flux
How to write a smart internet essay
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Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of the Ogilvy advertising agency, famously told a story about an office building where people complained that an elevator took too long to arrive. Instead of spending $1 million to make the elevators 5 percent faster, they solved the problem by spending around $100 to add mirrors so people could look at themselves whi... See more
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
To be offline is akin to not existing in this day and age.
i sent this screenshot from a steve jobs email to a friend & we ended up talking about how so many people plan so aggressively now that they leave no space for natural chaos.
you ask someone when they’re free & they hit you with “september 15th.” months out. especially in nyc, this is just…normal.
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And the big worry now is that the basic norm or value of respecting humanity and human life is just being shredded. And everyone, whether they’re Sudanese or Palestinian or Syrian, will suffer from that.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-to-prevent-more-starvation-deaths-in-gaza
“Good boy, thinks Kate. What has Kate Heffer possibly done to deserve such an insult? Everyone in Kate's life says there is a place and a role for good girls, and Kate, you are a good girl, here are the rules of being a good girl and the instructions to follow for you to have a good girldom verified, and testified and confirmed." - Headshot by Rita
... See moreThinking about this idea of a “good girl” in the context of my own experiences with being praised for being a “good girl” and seeing how much that contrasted with how my brother would be treated for his behavior as a boy. The excusability of his messy and careless actions were tied to his being a boy, but when I would even go and try something similar, it was tied to how I was not being proper, not being a “good girl”.
We learned to be "good" - to follow the rules about putting others first, never being selfish, always being agreeable. But in doing so, we lost touch with our own trickster energy: the cunning, vivifying power that could help us steal back what's been taken from us.
Why brilliant women can solve everyone's problems – except our own
Like armor or a mask, the good girl archetype is a protective mechanism, a way to be that helps us feel safe and loved in the patriarchy but that is ultimately disempowering.