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Life, the Universe & Everything — the past isn’t behind you it coils inside your...
captain-smartypanties.tumblr.comBeauty is not liberation. Attention is not power. You have to value being free more than being desired
internet and media and culture
visibility
The constant connection to the matrix, as it were, to a mediated existence, has born a kind of Puritanism that comes with the knowledge that you are constantly being surveilled, documented, that you are constantly in public in some way, being perceived, even when you are in your private space. This is what “distinguishes current youth from generati... See more
Carlee Gomes • The Puritanical Eye: Hyper-Mediation, Sex on Film, and the Disavowal of Desire
afropessimism and the term blackness
the problem is that the loneliness epidemic is very real for all of us, it’s just that it’s solely presented as an issue of guys unable to get laid. capitalism has fully hollowed out entire communities and alienated us from one another to the point of isolation
culture and
it seems we’re obsessed with measurements. measuring success, measuring progress. everything is a measurement. after generations have been taught to think outside the box, we have a new generation crawling back inside the box, crying for rules and structure.
everything is an advertisement. the purpose of media has changed from human expression to selling goods and services.