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Erik Davis on The Ezra Klein Show recently spoke about “high weirdness,” saying that “‘weirdness’ isn’t just a quality of things that don’t make sense to us; it’s an interpretive framework that helps us better understand the cultures and technologies that will shape our wondrous, wild future.”
Rebecca Johnson • Drawing Wisdom From the ‘Weird’
This dialectic is muddy from the get-go, of course. It’s a version of the more familiar hipster trap: over time, the marginal labor of the bohemian experimentalist and taste-maker is swallowed up by the smug cartoon of the in-the-know consumer clone. But the near inevitability of this process also suggests that the first hipster was already part of... See more
Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal
How to Navigate the Weirdness with Erik Davis March 19
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The digital dominance of the 21st Century has sorted us into our own tailored versions of online reality, where we drown in ads and information. It's overwhelming, noisy, and ephemeral. It's hard to have a simple conversation, let alone align the globe on a future worth building.
cameronwiese.com • It's time to build: A New World's Fair
Source: The A.V. Club
Watch The Avengers re-assemble to record The Avengers in Lakota
As our culture is rapidly becoming electronic, we are less and less what we were, a society of isolated individuals.