Jesse Burkunk
@jburkunk
Strategist in media and culture, a kind of chef, collector of adventurous music and good recipes. Plays music machines and cycles long distances for fun.
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Enabling customers to collaborate with you - in creating, distributing, marketing, and supporting products - is what creates a premium in today's market.
Jeff Jarvis • WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
Subtle shifts in language can sometimes have surprising consequences. The language of attention seems particularly loaded with economic and value-oriented metaphors, such as when we speak of paying attention or imagine our attention as a scarce resource we must either waste or horde. However, to my ears, the related language of attending to the... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Attending to the World
“People call romantic films ‘chick flicks’ as a way to diminish them, which I find unspeakably sad, not just for the way it excludes ‘chicks’ from the realm of ‘serious people,’ but also for the way it excludes ‘serious people’ from the realm of romance and love.
Dakota Johnson and director Celine Song rethink the rom-com with 'Materialists'
In ancient Greek, the word "chaos" (Χάος) didn’t have today’s connotations of disorder and confusion. Depending on who you asked, Chaos was:
It was only around 700 years later, when the Roman poet Ovid described Chaos as "a... See more
- A void (or “chasm”)
- Some sort of dwelling place
- The female force of creation
- The son of Chronos (the embodiment of linear time)
It was only around 700 years later, when the Roman poet Ovid described Chaos as "a... See more