Kirsten
@rootyarn
Following threads of not knowing and seeing what structures they form. Delighting in the pulse of life and the moment. Trusting in living systems, the cosmos and the trip that is life.
Kirsten
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“Forest Euphoria is a gorgeous celebration of the fact that when you give your heart to Science, it rewards you with a glimpse of something profound and beautiful.”—Hope Jahren, author of Lab Girl
Rediscover the beauty and magic of the natural world with Patricia Onoiwu Kaishian’s Forest Euphoria. This book will change... See more
instagram.comStolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
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A tradeoff occurs every time you get feedback. You become slightly more mainstream, slightly more aligned with the zeitgeist. You become marginally more of an exploiter than an explorer , standing on the shoulders of the giants who conceived the paradigm you’re striving to build upon. This is very effective when you want to align your work with... See more
Leber • The Feedback Tradeoff
Fundamentally then, school and all educative experiences must empower the learner to think freely about the complex world around them, and thus should be a liberator of oppression, not the reinforcer of it.
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
Hmm this really makes me think of how artists bring so much more to the art which an algorithm cannot anticipate. Artists with their feeling bodies are tapped into the pulse of time and societal shifts and their own human experience. Art often therfore alerts to collective or social phenomena and are therefor not just pretty pictures or entertainment. Like the last paragraph of this article in that regard. Creativity and art are there to push back against all of this. Getting back to creating outside the algorithm seems related to being human outside the algorithm which is linked to so many things. Thin extension to media and things Douglas Rushkoff talks about. Narratives shape.
Leviathan is a feature-length documentary that invites you to journey into… | Alexander Beiner | 39 comments
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Film on effects of social media on culture etc
Distraction-free writing software