Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
co-matter.comSeverin Matusek
Not a day passes that I’m not reminded of these words from Ric Sluiter, art director of LILO & STITCH. https://t.co/illJ76a41j https://t.co/7jGUzcdLUa
The rise of Onlyfans can be interpreted as a “commodification of intimacy” where, unlike porn, adult creators can now provide lonely men intimacy at scale over DMs.
The Loneliness Economy: How can technology help us belong?
To me, it’s very important to think about speculative fiction and worldmaking as two approaches for better orienting ourselves to the present, rather than conjuring escapist utopian futures that will never arrive.
On Technology and Humanity: Alice Bucknell and Her Alternative Worlds
- As traditional institutions lose credibility, more activity shifts to attention-based platforms.
- As more activity shifts to attention-based platforms, the incentives become more distorted.
- As the incentives become more distorted, traditional institutions lose more credibility.
kyla scanlon • From Dollar Dominance to the Slop Machine
Once, we made sense of the world with sweeping narratives that provided a comforting sense of mastery. Now, with those narratives shattered beyond repair by a reality too complex for us to fathom, a new kind of coping mechanism is emerging—one where we make peace with the limits of our agency rather than pretending to overcome them. The task is no... See more
Games of Chance – ZORA ZINE
By having that freedom you can find the spaces you align the most with.The desires of the post-individual are different than what we had in the past.
Yancey Strickler • 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler
“It’s a post-Snowden and post-WikiLeaks generation that throws its hands up in the air and says, ‘we don’t care about the Chinese spy, everyone has our data,’” Elizabeth Ingleson, an international history professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science told Semafor.