Marta Czamberg
@szpurcia
Marta Czamberg
“Digital has finally hit diminishing returns,” says Shaun Singh, founder of media company Death to Stock (DTS). “The digital ecosystem promised connection and delivered surveillance. Every gesture is tracked, predicted and monetized, and fed back to algorithmic overlords in the lifeless shape of data. After a decade, people want their sovereignty... See more
How ‘Unplugging’ Became Luxury’s Most Valuable Currency
bell hooks said, “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
zellie imani (@zellieimani)
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
James Baldwin
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
—James Baldwin
James Baldwin
“At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people... See more
Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era
That’s what laziness became for you, your shield, your excuse for not going after what you truly wanted. Deep down, you know that armour is brittle. It cracks every time you remember what it felt like to love something for the sake of loving it, to play, to explore, to believe you were capable of more.
sms • you could be brilliant...but you're coward.
Children shut down their natural desires and instincts to survive the disapproval of their caregivers.”- Psychologist Dr. Dan Siegel
you could be brilliant...but you're coward.
You do not need to know.
No, truly. You do not.
You do not need to see one more headline about political decay. You do not need to know immediately that a billionaire has once again purchased something they should not have. You do not need to read an anonymous comment that will enrage you before breakfast.
But you do. You do, because some small,... See more
No, truly. You do not.
You do not need to see one more headline about political decay. You do not need to know immediately that a billionaire has once again purchased something they should not have. You do not need to read an anonymous comment that will enrage you before breakfast.
But you do. You do, because some small,... See more
Fyodor • Six Meditations on the Phone
We reach for our phones not merely out of habit but out of existential dread. The silence. The stillness. The terrible weight of being alone with one's thoughts. We have made ourselves refugees from our own consciousness, fleeing into the digital realm where time dissolves, where the self fragments into likes and comments, where the infinite scroll... See more