Archives: Anchors For Attention
AI can generate a thousand articles while I drink my morning coffee. But it can't tell me which ones matter. It can't feel the resonance of a perfect sentence or know why a particular image stops me in my tracks.
That's what I do now. I collect resonance. Not information - we're drowning in that - but the stuff that makes my soul hum at a different
... See moreBenjamin wrote that collectors have a “feeling of responsibility” to their collections. But it’s very difficult to feel such ownership for what we collect on the Internet; we can’t be stewards of the culture we appreciate in the same way as Benjamin. We don’t actually own it and can’t guarantee accessing it in the same way each time.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
a place where the grand compulsion of archiving, from wherever it might arrive, can and will be attuned to — and, crucially, shared.
... 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