Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
When it comes to things like relationships, the bonds we form are ever-evolving and impossible to fossilize, just as the living internet will always trace back to links that stop functioning. But if the internet is fundamentally not meant for keeping, I’d still like to imagine what more it has to offer us.
The frailty of profit-oriented projects
... See moreThrough ‘Polyphonic Eating’ DJ Yu Su Wants You to Listen Closer, Taste More, and Feel Deeper
Joel Hartsomethingcurated.com
- Content creators and artists have different needs . Most tech headlines about AI have been about the impact on content creators and the insatiable desire and demand for content of all kinds. The majority of venture capital has been invested in tools for the “creator economy” – making ads, making endless amounts of YouTube and TikTok content,
AI & Artistry, the Resurgence of Hardware Startups, & Unicorns that are Really Rabbits
Our business in living is to become fluent with…life…and art can help this.” And elsewhere: “Art…is not self expression but self alteration.” Artmaking isn’t just something we do for the outcome; it’s something we do for the process, which includes the process of becoming the person with the taste, knowledge, sensitivity, agency, and ambition to... See more
Cage
Rituals give form to the essential transitions of life. They are forms of closure. Without them, we slip through. Thus, we age without growing old, or we remain infantile consumers who never become adults.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
Both writers force us to consider how particular technologies not only exacerbate and deepen forms of social alienation and control, but graft onto already-existing social arrangements. Further, both foreground the ways that speculative futures draw upon racialized and casted anxieties in delimiting who is human or robotic, worthy of being healed... See more
J. Khadijah Abdurahman • Letter from the Editor on Medicine and the Body in Tech
🧶✏️👩🏽💻 The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)
Alexandra Ciufudeannewpublic.substack.com
thoughtlessness in the digital realm
The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it) - Indie Web
Very deeply here for this thread. What do you notice about what the really great gathering ideas all have in common? 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
instagram.comIt is an attack on the cruel idea that work confers dignity and therefore that people who don’t work—the old, the disabled—lack value. On the contrary, dignity is intrinsic to all human beings, and in designing a work regime rigged for the profit of the few and the exhaustion of the many, we have failed to honor one another’s humanity.