the immediately sharable dressing-room selfies, appetizer snapshots, and view-from-the-hotel-balcony landscapes that aren’t meant to be art works but are, instead, “about developing and conveying your view, your experience, your imagination in the now.”
Communication
Monday reality check
The Psychopathology of Digital Life
discoursemagazine.comThe digital experience has wreaked untold damage, especially upon the young. But all is not lost.
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
bloodknife.comModern action and superhero films fetishize the body, even as they desexualize it.
Dutch Safety Posters
50watts.com
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
experimental-history.comThe main reason we don’t create more affordances, however, is pure egocentrism. When we just say whatever pops into our heads, we may think we’re making craggy, climbable conversational rock walls, when in fact we’re creating completely frictionless surfaces. For example, I’m thrilled to tell you about the 126 escape rooms I’ve done, but my love for paying people $35 to lock me in a room blinds me to the fact that you probably do not give a hoot. I may even think I’m being generous by asking about your experiences with escape rooms, when my supposed giving is really just selfishness with a question mark at the end (“Enough of me talking about stuff I like. Time for you to talk about stuff I like!”).