More Human Possible
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More Human Possible
the world is changing fundamentally due to several major factors: the shift in geological time from Holocene to Anthropocene, the impact of the internet and smart phones on the infosphere and lifeworld, capitalism running out of viable frontiers and being a complex adaptive system that has lost its ability to adapt, widespread governance failures, ... See more
Jonathan Rowson • Now that you’ve found the others what are you going to do? - Emerge
the self is no longer a subject but a project . The self is something to be optimised, to be maximised, to be made efficient, cultivated for its capacity for productive output. The worry is that all life activities become viewed as lines on a résumé. Knowingly or otherwise, we risk being constantly governed by the question How is what I’m doing rig
... See moreAlec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play
We internalize the message of what Byung-Chul Han has called the “achievement society” where the primary goal of a life is to constantly improve, nudged to become “entrepreneurs of [our]selves.”1 But constantly trying to be “better” can push us toward goals that are not ours, robbing us of our connection to ourselves.
Paul Millerd • Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
as every brand floods the zone w/ personalized and ever-optimized content, where will our preferences shift?
when anything becomes commoditized and ubiquitous, humans tend to crave the opposite. perhaps "the creator economy" will shift to a "meaning economy?" https://t.co/2Fdsx1oyZa