Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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... See moreCulture has to follow the dominant modes of perception of a given era. While a twentieth-century building might have been designed to be photographed, the twenty-first century work of art is “designed for reproducibility” through algorithmic feeds…They each contribute and conform to a generic, flattened, reproducible aesthetic. Hence the general st
The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.
-David Graeber
Only when a new tool has become unremarkable can its effect be judged.
— Filterworld, pg 276
... See moreFilterworld consist of one fundamental, unavoidable reality: never in human history have so many people experienced the same things, the same pieces of content disseminated instantly through the feeds, to our individual screens. Every consequence flows from that fact.
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To resist Filterworld, we must become our own curators once more and take respons
All it takes to form your own taste is thought, intention and care.
... See moreIn my conversations with curators, I found a tone of caring and caretaking that is missing entirely from massive digital platforms, which treat all culture like content to be funnelled indiscriminately at high volume and which encourages consumers to stay constantly on the surface…
We turn to art to seek connection, yet algorithmic feeds give us pur
