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Convenience is Destroying Culture
youtube.comProducts used to mold to us. As a dancer, my feet would be turned out, so the inside of my shoes would get worn out before the outside. Or my favorite pair of velvet pants have a mark at the backside from hours of sitting in front of the computer. Or a wood dinner table with marks of wine glasses signifying the history of long conversations on dinner parties. Signs of wear, tear, use.
Designing Friction – a call for friction in digital culture – explores the concept of consciously reintroducing obstacles and resistance in our online interactions to foster human connections. It can be seen as a new design paradigm not focussing on seamless experiences but on human connection. What does it mean to be human?”
... See moreWe are so used to design taking away friction from our lives that it causes impatience in the real world. Because the real world has friction: flights get delayed, people get busy, things go out of stock
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See more“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel
― R.F. Kuang, Babel
Babel Quotes by R.F. Kuang
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor,... See more
A quote from The Bell Jar
We often think of language as a means to an end, but rarely take the time to consider whether language in itself is influencing our thoughts, not just enabling the sharing of them.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
I often feel like I am a different person when I speak different languages
The products we have now, beg for attention. A hammer is a hammer. It doesn’t ask to be used. But our products now demand our attention. They glow, they vibrate, they ping and make noises.
In Poisonwood Bible, Nathan Price gives sermons where “Tata Jesus is bangala”, “bangala” meaning beloved. But due to his mispronunciation, it means “poisonwood” instead of “beloved”
Set around the story of missionaries trying to spread the word of Christianity in the newly liberated Congo, this misinterpretation ties into the Price family trying to force their beliefs and cultures onto the Congolese without understanding their cultural beliefs.
Also related to Adah collecting misprinted Bibles