Victoria Rooke
@victoriatwig
Victoria Rooke
Letter 14: Susan Sontag on the Unbearability of Not Taking Photos (And Not Sharing Them)
poetfromearth.substack.com
Thought provoking and Hyper-connectivity
Photographs as a substitution for presence/in real life connection.
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs
is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.”
— Susan Sontag, On Photography
Photographs, she argued, are rarely innocent: they turn experience into an object that can be owned, a world to be collected.
Something to think about in social contexts, in particular at social events such as social dances - are people coming to experience and connect vs consume and own.
« We are writing our story from the beginning from that moment in time. Tranquility comes with anonymity, the ability to write our story every time we meet someone new. When you are known you loose the ability to rewrite or tell from a different perspective, you are owned by the word. » Trevor Noah
https://open.spotify.com/episode/01bkWcFMXRCqISUzHP
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open.spotify.comMost skills/occupations are replaceable with superintelligence. But there will always an unexplainable niche eg artisanal handmade products, a wealthy person wants a human account
Free labour —> free wealth so the next question will be how do we derive meaning without work. What do we do to find meaning in our free 40hours.
Young great minds should be focusing on making narrow AI to solve specific problems (eg breast cancer) over superintelligence. Creating supperintelligence is contrary to improving their quality of life. BUT their is a race between nations, so it becomes about delaying the time taken to make it. We have to appeal to personal self interest to encourage those capable of creating these technologies that it is not an ideal outcome.
Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.
This life gives you nothing
The Death of Cool
itscharlibb.substack.com
Fitting in is the biggest threat to belonging. True belonging requires us to be who we are. Trying to fit in is betraying yourself. - Brene Brown
DOACEO podcast
There’s a magical number of people that are meant to enjoy or experience something…the second you cross that threshold it becomes a pumpkin…greed scaled it to a point where it [Vice] mutated and no longer ressembled what made it special in the first place.
Vice is Broke, Eddie Huang 2024
Documentary for Mubi
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All desire is a desire for being.”
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
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