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After dinner, Andy and I stopped by a bookstore that was next to St. Mark’s Comedy Club. Unorganized, lots of underground poetry, ended up getting “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and a preface to Plato. I asked the guy if they had any Ed Sanders (his Tales of Beatnick Glory shaped my sense of history of this neighborhood). They had that same book, signed,
... See moreThere should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, code-to-table alternatives to the factory-farmed junk food of the internet. And they should be weird.
Anil Dash • The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit – all these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.... See more
It’s the sound of failure: so much of modern art is the sound of things going out of
ayjay • The Homebound Symphony
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable, and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of... See more
🌀🗞 The FLUX Review, Ep. 149
I don’t need more things to look at from people I don’t know.
Nick Catucci • My Internet: Alison Roman
The decline of authentic internet subcultures due to excessive technological scale and the need for friction for new scenes.
TRANSCRIPT
But it seemed like the internet was this place where like real subcultures could kind of spring from nowhere or you could find a subculture that worked for you. And it was sort of like this beautiful secret that you had with strangers. Yeah, yeah. Niche at scale in a way. Yeah, yeah. And now that doesn't exist online, right? All that exists- Or
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