Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
as spaces of congregation that erase…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
But the mechanism of recommendations and the tailoring of the thumbnail images serve to flatten our perception of culture and limit the…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Rome for sale
Mary Beard • SPQR
Modernization could not proceed in a world populated with large numbers of individuals who believed in the value or potency of their own internal visions or voices.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
it is the hybrid and dissonant experience of living intermittently within modernized spaces and speeds, and yet simultaneously inhabiting the remnants of pre-capitalist life-worlds, whether social or natural.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Are We Living in a Time of Cultural Collapse?
The conditions of communication and information access on an everyday level ensure the systematic erasure of the past as part of the fantasmatic construction of the present.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Cézanne in his studio was generating his own revolution, not an industrial revolution that would make once-costly objects available to everyone, but a revolution in appreciation, a far deeper process, that would get us to notice what we already have to hand. Instead of reducing prices, he was raising levels of appreciation – which is a move perhaps
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As Pajkovic wrote, “Feedback loops reinforce a user’s pre-existing preferences, diminishing their exposure to a diverse range of cultural offerings and denying art, aesthetics and culture of its confrontational societal role.” That lack of confrontation is concerning. It’s not that great art needs to be inherently offensive; rather, when everything
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