Gemma Bartlett
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Gemma Bartlett
Consumption , noun, late 14th century: “wasting of the body by disease; wasting disease, progressive emaciation,” from Old French consumpcion , from Latin consumptionem : “a using up, wasting;” noun of state from past-participle stem of consumere: “to use up, eat, waste.”
Emily Daniel • Eating, using up, wasting
“The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not
The act of consumption itself has become a drug.
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
Hence the irony that consumerism, which we often denounce as “materialism,” is in fact quite happy to reduce things to nothingness. What makes such serial acquisition consumptive is precisely this treatment of things as disposable. While on the one hand this practice invests things with redemptive promise, on the other hand they can never measure
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Consumption isn’t “bad” it’s a necessary step in the act of producing anything. But consumption without outlet? Consumption without capacity to process and create? Eventually it clogs everything up. The mind, space, time, and the physical body.
Your life is the product of your attention.
You spend eight hours scrolling, you get an empty mind. You spend eight hours creating, you get a meaningful life.
Where your attention goes, your life follows. Stop renting your mind to algorithms.
Reclaim your focus and build something meaningful.
You spend eight hours scrolling, you get an empty mind. You spend eight hours creating, you get a meaningful life.
Where your attention goes, your life follows. Stop renting your mind to algorithms.
Reclaim your focus and build something meaningful.