Mel Zog
@melzog
Mel Zog
TikTok - Make Your Day
vm.tiktok.comThis is a great question, not a stupid one; she has arrived at a conclusion that makes perfect sense within the logics of modern labour and production. This author views her writing as a product, and her audience views her writing as a product, and most products are manufactured in line with this logic: someone comes up with an idea, does a bit of
... See more"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
- Ray Bradbury
The messaging about social media is so confusing. On one hand, it’s the domain of the embarrassingly anti-intellectual, attention-hungry, vain, stupid, trollish... Yet on the other hand, social media can also supposedly propel people to the presidency and shape an entire generation’s opinion on geopolitical issues. So what does it mean to advocate... See more
Chris Jesu Lee • Scroll Up, Cash In, Check Out
Thought provoking and Social Media
Social media, anti intellectualism, analogue
When Alex came back from the dead, it was the summer of all the heat waves. Every time it got above 95 degrees, an alert on our phones told us to turn off the lights and keep our refrigerators closed. Something was wrong with the grid and they couldn’t or wouldn’t fix it. Sometimes they came down my block and tinkered and then left. There were... See more
Solar Flare
love this introduction
Hinge notes as an anthropological project
On the Grid
thedriftmag.com
GRANDSTAFF It's kind of true what they say; that everything in life, every business you get into, every place you go, is really just high school. Politics, all of it... it's all high school. That's why I think it's still relatable, genuinely.
(From a conversation on Daria, in Notebook #6)
What happened to high school drama now. I'm thinking about Mean Girls too, and how it really reflected the politics of that time (queen bees and wannabees)
That is, every time you write, She could hear or He could see or They felt , you are describing looking at someone while they undergo perception. You do not need that extra step of noting that someone is noting something. Where did that come from? I believe that extra step was inserted by cinema. You are so accustomed to looking at someone looking... See more