Severin Matusek
- Writing, more visibly and unquestionably today than ever, is inherently networked. It begins and remains connected to its subject, and to everything else, becoming part of it. It acts. It does work. It lives. When we write, we reconfigure the world.
from Why I Write by James Bridle
- It used to feel really chaotic to me. I used to be like, how do we make sense of all this stuff? There's so much stuff. There's so many different moods, tones, attitudes, no cohesive narrative. But then once you get enough distance and look in the rearview you realize: that's a body of work.
from New Media IRL: "New Release" by Yacht
- Popular crypto influencer Crypto Chico has a breakdown in this video, talking about depression and the pressure of creating daily content.
from THIS MAY BE THE END FOR ME...(I'M SORRY) by Tyler Swope
- Every creator has a group that they can BELONG if they choose to.
from 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler by Yancey Strickler
- 2. Decreasing trust in large social and search companies. Concurrent with the rise of creator-driven discovery is a general sense of dwindling trust in the companies consumers have historically relied on to find online content and products.
from Roadmap: Curating the internet by Alexandra Sukin
- The canonical example of the 2010s was probably the trend-forecasting agency K-HOLE, which was formed by four art-school friends who, while grifting fashion-industry jobs in New York, became ‘interested in the total collapse that comes with being the thing itself’. As it turned out, they were exceptionally good at ‘the thing itself’ – publishing pu... See more
from The Artist of the Future by Gary Zhexi Zhang
- And that is what really gets me going: the dynamic between what’s going on in the world, and what it means for us as human beings.
from What my writing is really about
- The internet’s real magic is that it gives us the power to see what the previous systems did not want or allow us to see: how connected we all are. Yes, we are all unique individuals, but between us are islands of connection whose depths carry infinite potential and the path to a new world.
from A new creative beginning
- Any study of worldbuilding would be remiss without mention of Biosphere 2, the experimental facility constructed in Arizona for studying the feasibility of life in a manmade ecosystem. In 1994, Abigail Alling and Mark Van Thillo broke into the complex – or rather, attempted a break-out, and in the process brought the years-long experiment to an abr... See more
from Without World - The White Review