SpaceXponential
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Conscientious Questioner
SpaceXponential
This is nothing new in the physical social world, but it is revolutionary in the digital social world, where groups and shared messenger threads have historically always been communal spaces.
Cult leaders are their own moderators
Cult leaders need mechanisms for elevating and blessing followers, as well as mutually reinforcing power
Cults need... See more
Cult leaders are their own moderators
Cult leaders need mechanisms for elevating and blessing followers, as well as mutually reinforcing power
Cults need... See more
The Information • Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms
Why would anybody in their right mind want to watch a six-hour improvisation? "People did sit through the whole six hours. I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being. The process of it forming before it gels is as interesting as the gelling."
Stuart Jeffries • Surrender. It's Brian Eno
Charles Broskoski on self-discovery that happens upon revisiting things you’ve accumulated over time
Laurel Schwulstthecreativeindependent.comIn a way, crypto only magnifies or exposes the historically intimate ties between art, status and money. When we are in the thick of operating in the art system, it’s easy to forget how the aesthetic value, historical value, monetary value are actively negotiated for each art object. What web3 did was simply render art as a literal currency.
Wendi Yan • An Artist in Crypto
... I realized I associate art with gifts. You don’t mark a true gift with a monetary value. You don’t predict the rise and fall of that value. If an art is important to you, you want to hold onto it, instead of trading it with others. And if an art is to initiate a spiritual experience for an audience, it should not involve itself with... See more
Wendi Yan • An Artist in Crypto
Pure Scenius will be a six-hour improvised show featuring several musicians ... Pure Scenius first took place in Sydney last year, prompting the Morning Herald to say: "The theatre of the music-making process was as enthralling as the music itself." Above the musicians sits an overhead projector, on which Eno writes notes. "I'll write things like,... See more
Stuart Jeffries • Surrender. It's Brian Eno
Political risks aside, whatever the blockchain of facts could discover about consensus has already been thoroughly demonstrated by Trump Tweets. Trump Tweets have shown us that access to, obviousness of, and even universal agreement on the facts often achieves nothing for public discourse. Everyone agrees on the exact words he said, but their
... See moreMike Elias • Wittgenstein’s Revenge
We need a new “epistemic currency,” common to everyone. Fortunately, one already exists, and it’s more fundamental than facts: Trust.