Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
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COLORSxCOMMUNITY: SEASON 0
My friend Chris Beiser says that social forms are a kind of capital that is essential to the structure of society and production. To put it a bit differently, the repertoire of forms dictates the kinds of lives that are available to us.
Care Culture • Prototyping Social Forms of Care
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.
New Media IRL: "New Release" by Yacht
“Please stop sending me AI videos of my dad.... You’re not making art. You’re making disgusting, over-processed hot dogs out of human lives.”
Sora 2 is an Attack on Social Media.. and Reality
Has anyone wrote anything good on the technological effects on human affectivity? The ability of humans to feel?
twitter.com • Geneia@home @home
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
The biggest reason that the last two hundred years have seen a series of conflicts between the employers who deploy technology and workers forced to navigate that technology is that we are still subject to what is, ultimately, a profoundly undemocratic means of developing, introducing, and integrating technology into society.