Ernest Borowski
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Ernest Borowski
And so I remain at an unresolvable juncture: the intersection of the very strong belief that we must experiment with new modes and systems of communication, and the certain knowledge that every time I so much as glance at anything shaped like a social feed, my brain smoothes out, the web of connections and ideas I’m weaving is washed away, and I tu... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
About the feeling of getting into social-media loopscrolling
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
To step into the stream of any social network, to become immersed in the news, reactions, rage and hopes, the marketing and psyops, the funny jokes and clever memes, the earnest requests for mutual aid, for sign ups, for jobs, the clap backs and the call outs, the warnings and invitations—it can feel like a kind of madness. It’s unsettling, in the ... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
I believe that we desperately need to be experimenting and developing methods of communication that aren’t beholden to either the advertising industry or the brittle egos of billionaires.
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism:
So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t
Fisher-Designer-Communism
Mark Fisher discusses the concept of designer communism, advocating for luxury as a shared experience while critiquing capitalism's artificial scarcity and its impact on creativity and social belonging.
LinkThe word “essay” has a brilliant etymological journey. It is derived from essayer in French, meaning ‘to endeavour’ or ‘to attempt’ or ‘to do one’s utmost.’ An essay, in other words, is a humble, tentative effort. When we write essays we are simply trying to explain our thoughts, trying to share our feelings, trying to connect with others.
If we don’t have a relationship with the living world, how are we going to protect it? We can know all the facts about climate change, but if we don’t love nature, if we really don’t have any relationship with other forms of life, how are we going to stand for them?