Thomas
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Thomas
Anu Gupta, Breaking Bias
Still others argue that the circular-economy idea merely reframes rather than rejects the corporate and capitalist assumptions that got us into this mess in the first place. Instead of challenging the goal of growth, circular economies create a new form of growth that is still in the hands of industrial corporations. The accusation is that the... See more
Chip Colwell • Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?
What’s being concentrated, in other words, is not content but the economic value of content. [The platforms] have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 is the distribution of production into the hands of the many and the... See more
Tara McMullin • 'The Creator Economy Is Eating Creative Acts'
Examples of multimodal metaphors from the Economist cover art ...
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“The problem with social media platforms is not just that they seek to hook us on their products, it’s also that they offer themselves as the answer to profound human desires, which they are ultimately unable to satisfy.”
L. M. Sacasas
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
L. M. Sacasas
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
The Convivial Society | L. M. Sacasas | Substack
what do you have “unreasonably”high standards for?
Implicit in the promise of outsourcing and automation and time-saving devices is a freedom to be something other than what we ought to be. The liberation we are offered is a liberation from the very care-driven involvement in the world and in our communities that would render our lives meaningful and satisfying. In other words, the promise of... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Work of Art
There is a social cost to early-moving because all our reward systems are baked into those preexisting mutually reinforcing frames. When we adopt a new frame (e.g. “the climate crisis is an emergency worth our sustained attention”) we put at risk any reward systems in conflict with our new frame.
Spencer R. Scott • Emergencies, Frameshifts and What They Tell Us About Our Place in the World
That is, we’ve traded our craftsmenship for management. We now are less immersed in the exact pieces we’re putting together and more interested in the outcome of the work. To us, programming has now become a means to an end, instead of an end in itself.