Van Newman
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techno-critical writer / dystopian studies hobbyist / idea guy
Van Newman
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Objects & Sounds - Every Mood is a Good Mood
objectsandsounds.comFriday Black — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
nanakwameadjei-brenyah.comThis is how it works: You’ve always wanted to be a writer, but instead you decide you should become a health care worker. You go to school for four years. You get a degree in social work. You are at your first day of your new job, listening to an orientation, and you realize you really did want to be a writer. You quit your job, go to the library
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“In someone's response to a prompt on the social media app, Somewhere Good, they mentioned "TV is the content between the ads". I never thought of it like that before but it's true; TV scripts are traditionally written in five act structures around the commercial breaks.
It then made me think about where social media is going, particularly on
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The Energetics of Love: How I Went from Dysfunctional to a Secure Relational Dynamic
Sarah Faith Gottesdienermoonstudio.substack.com
“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform which may come in the form of betraying or divesting from your public online self.”
Caroline Busta • The Internet Didn’t Kill Counterculture—you Just Won’t Find It on Instagram
I’m reminded of the words of sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” Of course, it was also noted by philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Such a statement displays the narrative
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