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These technologies play on the sense of being out of sync, isolated from a communal time, and suggest that each one of us is responsible for rediscovering the flow of natural time in which we will feel at home once more.
Lauren Collee • Temporal Belonging
For the company:The labor/ creator lets themselves be tracked, measured, and optimized, and the company gets to keep a copy of that data to run its business and maintain the relationship with the laborer for the long term. This is giving up some privacy for the laborer.
James Currier • Status, Wealth, & Power: Network Effects Demand A New Social Contract
And as Apple’s marketing material demonstrates, this is no accident. iPhone adverts are strange: they make the phone a body. They borrow a visual language less from sci-fi or action movies than from erotica. Devices are shot in extreme close-up, almost always dimly lit. A beam of light traces across a surface so smooth that it occupies a space... See more
Dirty Furniture • TELL ME, DO YOU INTEND TO FUCK IT?
It’s revealing to think of mimetic desire along a continuum. Certain people and organizational cultures are more prone to mimesis than others. And one thing is clear, on a societal level: any society in which people are no longer struggling with scarcity but coping with abundance will undergo an explosion of mimetic desire. In this universe of... See more
Luke Burgis • Mimetic Desire 101 - Luke Burgis Newsletter Mimetic Desire 101
Mimetic Desire and
To use a post-modern turn of phrase, the Stream is “inhospitable to strangers.” If the Garden is exposition, the stream is conversation and rhetoric, for better and worse.
mikecaulfield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
As Kei Kreutler points out, conventional calendars and time lines seem awfully out of date now that we are lost in a multi-temporal garden of forking memes. This dissonance between felt time and measured time gets more confusing by the day, and it’s beginning to feel unsustainable. Amidst the unsettling chaos, it’s tempting to crawl back to the... See more
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
Aggression is highly contagious. And it is most contagious when people have weak ties between them, when they are isolated, when they are alone.
Luke Burgis • The Twitter Ban: Handshakes and Emails
Enterprise Gateway Marketplaces are going to be a big part of the ongoing marketplace revolution. They make it manageable for small vendors to sell into S&P 500 customers that are normally out of reach and make it easier for enterprises to work with outside vendors to get the latest business products and services without having to bring them... See more