Severin Matusek
- but continued a love affair with language and meaning as texture and material.
from Why I Write by James Bridle
- The way that we engage with media on the internet has become laden with fandom energy. All narratives on the internet have become subsumed under the umbrella of‘content’, no matter their scale or veracity. They all have the potential to gather lore, because they can all be read the same way—like fictional media franchises. Thisincludes everyday soc... See more
from I Would Very Much Like To Be Excluded From This Lore by Libby Marrs
- Joanne McNeil provides context to the evolution of communities online connection to the platforms that enable it.
from Attention Required! | Cloudflare by Macmillan
- To understand the networked self, we must first understand the self, which is a ceaseless endeavor. The ultimate problem of the Internet might stem not from the discrete technology but from the Frankensteinian way in which humanity’s invention has exceeded our own capacities.
from How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines by Kyle Chayka
- Systems Ultra goes beyond narratives of technological exceptionalism to explore how we experience the complex systems which influence our lives, how to understand them more clearly, and, perhaps, how to change them.
from Systems Ultra by Georgina Voss
- A group of people - a purpose - a set of releases. That concept has been around for a long time
from 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler by Yancey Strickler
- A few years ago, a user by the name of IlluminatiPirate published Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake on the online forum Agora Road’s Macintosh Cafe.1 The theory proposes that the majority of the content with which we engage online is algorithmically generated by bots, all in an effort to control what we believe. I feel obligated to... See more
from Making the Internet Alive Again by Gaby Goldberg
- Web3 creates tools and new digital realities where this becomes practical.
from 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler by Yancey Strickler
- In Mythologies , Roland Barthes discusses how wrestling (and now, politics) uses kayfabe, the convention of presenting staged narratives and spectacles as real to capture attention and elicit a desired response from an audience.
from magic, online! by Nick Susi