Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
co-matter.comSeverin Matusek
The community is currently in its pre-DAO phase during which we run various trials with early community members.
COLORSxCOMMUNITY: SEASON 0
technology and globalization have changed our information streams and our patterns of life drastically enough that the ways we calibrate around incoming information are becoming increasingly dangerous for us,
Everyone’s Existential Crisis
At one point I was struggling to connect the dots and our moderator, the science fiction scholar Sherryl Vint, made the very astute observation that what seems to capture my interest is the gap between models and reality.
The Queen's Doll's House
My new piece is live. I think it's one of the more important things I've ever written.
If everyone can cheat their way to mastery, wealth, or beauty, they will see it as a giant permission slip to create new ways of finding meaning.
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If immersive media prefigured the rise of the neoliberal world order, network media prefigured its collapse.
Neural Interpellation
Proud to have 3FACE enter the @MuseumModernArt collection.
And grateful to @outland_art for setting the stage and bridging worlds.
It’s never simple nor routine for an institution to collect dynamic art - i.e. art that changes state.
But it is this quality of dynamic… Show more
I love that summary, particularly how it catches the message of hope. Filterworld isn’t a wholesale complaint about social media; it’s a quest to figure out how we can have something better than our self-reinforcing and flattening algorithmic feeds. That is what I want people to get from reading the book, in the end. Even though digital platforms a... See more
Two months til Filterworld / a new project
Layoffs. Side hustles. Freelancers everywhere. Elaborate new titles.
What even is a “career path” now?I don’t think this is just a downturn
It's not a glitch, it’s a whole new operating system
“market but also all risk borne on individuals not orgs and with that the loss of expertise building, domain knowledge, and institutional knowledge. It means everyone will eventually be starting from scratch with every process on ever project, ending up in the same problem crypto people have where they are constantly "inventing" things that have existed for centuries.”