Ruby-Maude Rioux
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Ruby-Maude Rioux
In anthropology, when there’s no empirical connection between acts and their desired outcomes, “We call this stuff ‘magic,’”
Elizabeth Landau • The Rituals That Ward Off Bad Luck Aren’t Arbitrary
Fake is our leading candidate for word of the century. It captures almost everything relevant now in a single syllable.
Ted Gioia • Is There a Crisis of Seriousness?
Both artists’ ability to trick the human cognition, and observers’ ability to successfully fall into the illusion is immensely fascinating to me.
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quote by Ayça Akan
Important reminder on social medias
It is a comforting thought that the burning of a puppet could do away with any one person’s problems, to say nothing of an entire city’s — or country’s. Anxiety has a strong anticipatory element: It is predicated on what might happen, what could go wrong. Once a specific future snaps into place, it survives only by attaching to a new object of rumi... See more
One City’s Secret to Happiness: The Annual Burning of a 50-Foot Effigy
The media ecosystem is in crisis because social media has a mental illness and traditional media has a physical illness. Today’s dominant social media platforms might make us angry and dumb, but they have functioning business models and, with the exception of X, financial stability. Today’s largest traditional media companies have the opposite prob... See more
Hamish McKenzie • Jeff Bezos has a business problem
“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”
Maria Flynn • Opinion | The A.I. Economy Will Make Jobs More Human - The New York Times
View of Embodied Creation and Perception in Olafur Eliasson’s and Carsten Höller’s Projects
journals.aau.dkScientific knowledge, which we have removed from an inspiring or supernatural dream of revelation, can today reveal itself as ‘poetic listening’ to nature and its processes, a means that is available for production and invention in an open, productive and creative world. The time has come for new pacts with nature - pacts which we have entered into with nature since heathen times, but have since forgotten - pacts between human history, society, knowledge and their adventurous investigation of nature.