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An adapted and edited talk given at FWB Fest (2023) from Are.na founder Charles Broskoski
A meditation on what we pay attention to, how it motivates and inspires us, drawing connections in our experiences, and more
Jan 21, 2024
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For fear of embarrassing myself or creating an infohazard with a poor explainer, I will be sparse in my description. Just check it out. These ideas have legs. Longtermism is interesting. Effective Altruism is interesting.
Oct 11, 2022
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Firs tthing- walter Ben-ya-meen. If u bring him up in conversation and say ben ja min ur gonna look like an idiot apparently. But its funny bc its not like people say Valter Benyameen. They say walter. Go figure.
Anyways this text is So Great. im definitely late to the game to this contexts of frankfurt dialectics, post war philosophy manifestos, yada yada but this one is so powerful and formative esp if ur an artist or visual creator that is Woke. Its one of his more accessible writings, and he is also a very important person to kno if u r even remotely into literature/philosophie/art/design/criticism etc.
Benyameen talks about this loss/absence of human experience post war/industrual revolution whcih i think is rlly the root of all this floptok based retard gang xiaohongshu on the extreme side, but even at its most tame (yet this is more insidious/barbaric in the bad way as Benyameen puts it) all of these miu miu shoe unboxing, day in the life of a big city transplant, clean consumerism we are witness to online. It is rlly this central idea of experience that hit home for me, and the resulting idea of barbarism which fr opened my third eye and put words to the feelings of trying to contextualize our days of Today. Im also totally going to start using the word barbarian to describe creatives and intellectuals and world leaders haha. Be the Good Barbarian.
dm me if u want my annotated copy i culd keep going but arent these meant to be kept short idk<3
Jan 20, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason itโs still standing is bc itโs unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isnโt just charting the attention economy but also attempting to โsolveโ it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024
Top Recs from @samkotrba
"oh Angelo you're tearing my heart out!" - David Lynch
Jan 23, 2024
The second installment of director Gregg Araki's 'Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy' is a story of two lovers on seemingly violent road trip, exploring sexuality, and strange nightmarish encounters. Soundtracked by artists like Aphex Twin, Slow Dive, and Nine Inch Nails, the movie serves as a time capsule into a nihilistic Gen X coming of age story
Jan 22, 2024
Directed by Louise Malle and starring Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, figures in NYC's 1980's experimental theatre scene
The movie is built on the premise of a singular conversation between two old friends as they catch up on their lives and beliefs over dinner
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For all my monologue heavy independent cinema lovers out there, this one's for you <3
Jan 21, 2024