Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.
John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
But Netflix nevertheless functions similarly to Spotify, guiding our choices toward particular content and shaping what we perceive as representative of a given genre, the same way that Galaxie 500’s “Strange” became misleadingly representative of the band’s music.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
rapacious
Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
The potential for exploitation of creative content and ideas by corporate overreach is a significant concern.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
streambait”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
A project was said to “ask questions about” or “draw attention to” a topic, without any obligation to formulate conclusions or provide an easily digestible message.
With hindsight, we can see that the nonlinearity of digital hypertext and poststructuralism cut two ways: On the one hand, it helped to dismantle master narratives; on the other, it prod
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Rather than being a means to a larger set of ends, the apparatus is the end itself. Its purpose is directing its user to an ever more efficient fulfillment of its own routine tasks and functions.