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As we have seen in the previous theses, our digital environment:
Regulates our lives towards a smaller number of paths purposely designed by others rather than trails more fortuitous and exploratory.
Builds up a monolithic authentic self rather than a lush set of mutually-enriching contextual identities.
Is heavily focused on categorising people, whic
Robin Berjon • Retrofuturism
Identity is contextual and, if we are to live, breathe, and grow, it has to remain contextual. The Internet of the “authentic self” — a loathsome, aberrant idea if there ever was one — is an exercise in slowly getting strangled by your past selves.
Robin Berjon • Retrofuturism
Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and care as productive in the same way.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By analyzing the content of art rather than merely experiencing it, we “set up a shadow world of ‘meanings’”—everything necessarily pointing at something else. In order to liberate ourselves from this diminishing way of seeing, she suggests valuing transparence instead. “Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of th... See more
#180: Against Self-Analysis
“Deep Listening practice is process training.”
-Pauline Oliveros, “Deep Listening”
“Prompted by experience and learning, listening takes place voluntarily. Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening.”
-Pauline Oliveros, “Deep Listening”
These works are “arguments for concentration of present details as a way of life lived against a background of unconsciouness, lack of meaning, and nonexistence … arguing openly for concentration as a value” and embodiment as a human condition”
—Kenneth Baker, “Some Exercises in Slow Perception”