Mel Zog
@melzog
Mel Zog
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 blac... See more
Solar Flare
love this introduction
JEWELS GOLD on TikTok
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Idk.. the whole tiktok account is interesting
"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
Immediacy or the Style of too late capitalism. Something happening with our mediums.
As a user of these technologies, do you sense that you’re being monitored in ways that make you feel as if you’re being exposed, controlled and manipulated? Or do you feel seen?
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
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Thought provoking and Social Media
Social media, anti intellectualism, analogue
Dakota on Substack
substack.com
Hinge notes as an anthropological project
Aujourd’hui, toutes les tables parisiennes misent sur une déco originale. L’apparence va-t-elle prendre la pas sur la cuisine ? Pour lire notre article “Le beau, ingrédient indispensable des restos”, rendez-vous sur le lien dans notre bio. #TimeOutParis
instagram.comGRANDSTAFF 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)