alexi gunner
@idlegaze
cultural strategist
writes idle gaze; a newsletter exploring the undercurrents of the modern zeitgeist.
founder @ idle gaze consulting
cultural futurist @ RADAR
alexi gunner
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- A McKinsey study found that companies that prioritize creativity have 67 percent above-average organic revenue growth and 74 percent above-average net enterprise value
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- Researchers speculated that the experience of awe might increase participants’ sense of time-availability, which might in turn lead people to act more generously with their time, and enhance overall well-being.
from How Awe Stops Your Clock by Jesse Graham
- I'm intrigued by the concept of "Functional experiences," which marry the best of entertainment, tech and well-being [mental x physical] paired with ancient ritual practices with a twist.
Corvas Brinkerhoff [Meow Wolf] is exploring the benefits of "neuroaesthetics" ["the positive impact of art on the mind"] within the realms of his new Austin therap... See morefrom feed updates
- “Because we spend our life indoors—like animals in a zoo—we are obsessed with the weather,” architect Rem Koolhaas once cynically quipped. We remain similarly obsessed with our bodies as the internet hypothetically diminishes their practical significance.
from Matter
- American cities have not been too kind to minorities because (most) American cities have not been, well, cities. They are not dense, not walkable, don't allow people to rely on public transport, don't create enough opportunity (or necessity) to interact with people from different socio-economic brackets.
from Did Cities Fail Us? by Dror Poleg
- Fred Pohl famously said that the job of the science fiction writer was to predict the traffic jam, not the automobile.
from Traffic Jams and Automobiles
we have the sense that what we're consuming is more personalized which is a little bit at odds with consuming as a community right so the idea of the monoculture if you have a monoculture it's pretty easy to situate the counterculture in relation to that right with the monoculture is everyone watching Game of Thrones at the same time the countercul
... See morefrom Where Is the Counter-Culture? On the Rise of the Critic Class | VISIONS @ MoMA Session 2 by Future Commerce
- “It’s not singlehood, dear friend, that hurts; it’s not casual sex, the fluidity of our bonds, nor their ephemeral nature that causes pain.” Rather, it’s the way that power operates in relationships. Desire isn’t a spontaneous, apolitical passion; it’s shaped by the world around us, and by what we’ve been taught to value. Romance operates like a ma... See more
from Why Does Romance Now Feel Like Work? by Hannah Giorgis
In Valeria Luiselli’s 2011 novel Faces in the Crowd , the two types of people are “those who just live, and those who design their lives.”
from Dirt: Two Kinds of People by Dirt