Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
co-matter.comSeverin Matusek
Williams also wrote that to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. Despair right now is extremely convincing and extremely profitable. Hope would be the opposite - something that doesn't need you to feel desperate in order to work.
kyla scanlon • The Ozempicization of Everything
Cyberspace is a black hole. It absorbs energy and personality. And then represents it as an emotional spectacle. It is done by businesses that commodify human interaction and emotion. And we are getting lost in the spectacle.
— anonymous internet user
Reggie James • Political Expectations
If we want people to make different decisions is to challenge people what to think of the self. Who are you, what are all the dimensions of you? It’s in those dimensions that you challenge what you care about. That person has a different sense of what is right and what is wrong.
Yancey Strickler • 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler
Author Cory Doctorow coined the term "enshittification" to describe the gradual decline of services as they prioritize value extraction over value creation for users, a process he views as an inevitable consequence of platform capitalism.
subvert.fm • Subvert
I’d describe my time from 2015-2020 (when the book will be published) in three distinct phases:
- Phase I: 2015-2016: Discovery, exploration, initial research, hypothesis generation (funded by the Ford Foundation)
- Phase II: 2016-2018: Experience, experimenting, hypothesis testing (working at GitHub)
- Phase III: 2018-2020: Refining, summarizing,
nadia.xyz • Reimagining the PhD
Speculators, in turn, look to charismatic leaders as “social proof” that their risk-taking is warranted, and likely to be rewarded. The ritualism of meme coin culture might be described as what Victor Turner called a kind of “communitas”: a social condition in which individuals, connected by a collective suspension of normative hierarchies, adopt... See more