Stella
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Stella
Why Isn’t Art Counted Among Necessities?
The answer might be simple: we’ve forgotten. Art is so embedded into the fabric of life that we no longer see it. It’s in the curves of a chair, the logo on a soup can, the story behind a song. But because we don’t always call it “art,” we forget to recognize it as such.
Worse, we’ve been conditioned to see... See more
The answer might be simple: we’ve forgotten. Art is so embedded into the fabric of life that we no longer see it. It’s in the curves of a chair, the logo on a soup can, the story behind a song. But because we don’t always call it “art,” we forget to recognize it as such.
Worse, we’ve been conditioned to see... See more
Art as A Necessity: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Human Survival
The AI content mill is designed to replace labor just as any form of automation might strive to, but, uniquely, the AI content mill attempts to mechanize emotional labor with a veneer of individuality which will only ever become fascistic if left completely unchecked, whole modes and strains and tangents of images, audio, and videos mapped... See more
capitalist surrealism
Nostalgia need not be conservative, stultifying or sentimental. Rather, expressions of nostalgia are one way we communicate a desire for the past, dissatisfaction about the present, and our visions for the future. My version of nostalgia will be joyful, creative and progressive.
Agnes Arnold-Forster • Nostalgia Was, in Freud’s Day, an Illness Steeped in the Past. Today, It Can Be a Joyful Emotion That Reframes the Future
“Charm is not navel-gazed, but generated through your radical, loud embrace of both honesty and openness rooted in liking people enough to generously hand a piece of yourself to them.”
The Yearning Index
By parsing these chemical intermediaries, we can begin to understand the biological underpinnings of how emotions affect diseases...... See more
The same parts of the brain that control the stress response ... play an important role in susceptibility and resistance to inflammatory diseases such as arthritis. And since it is these parts of the brain that also
The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease
Writing fiction requires seeing beauty and poetry even in the most mundane moments. Finding something magical in the ordinary. Caring about others, caring about humanity, and caring about silences. And above all, realising that a thousand invisible fibres, yes, a thousand stories connect us with our fellow human beings; beyond all borders and... See more
A Thousand Fibres Connect Us
