Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
đť Cultural Critic - Made in the USA đşđ¸ // It's all a game and there's 80% chance I'll change my mind.
Chad Aaron Hall
drunkonideas.carrd.co
In the map-with-route system (direct manipulation), the user must do some of the work of understanding what they see (the map), and developing a mental model of how to apply it to their context (reading the map). In exchange for this deeper involvement, the user learns a useful mental model (their local geography) that can help them in future uses
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âthe user must do some of the workâ
At its worst, blogging incentivizes authors to create a huge number of low quality posts.
James Yu ⢠Continuous Publishing
Someone needs to create a platform for journalists on the blockchain.
As I'm watching the Danny Casolaro doc on Netflix this seem necessary.
This platform would function as a lockbox for backups of all a journalists research. It cannot be erased, it cannot be censored, it cannot be altered. If something happens to that journalist, the platform would
... See moreBy the 1980s, Acker had also developed a rigorous editing method: She said that she rewrote every book eight times (!), each time with a different criteria in mind: âonce for sound, once for meaning, once for âbeautyâ, once for structure, once in the mirror for performativity etc.â
Mason Currey ⢠Kathy Acker Was Against Creativity
I love the way Kym Petrie describes getting into the creative space to restore a house. She describes it as âbeing there, lost in that space.â That triggers something for me. I do the same thing in places. Itâs like your letting your mind view itâs past and maybe even its future. What was it like to live there? Can you feel that snapshot of time?
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... See moreBook people, relax. Iâm not looking to replace reading-for-pleasure with cheap AI-generated summaries. Theyâre hollow and void of joy. I donât want the Spark Notes. I want the obscure excerpts hidden in Chapter 13, written in elegant prose, and eerily related to my exact stream of thought. Theyâre just impossible to find at the right moment. Can al... See more
Michael Dean ⢠Margin Matchmaker
Ackerâs approach to writing was just as radical as her approach to paying the rent. Inspired by a poetry class taught by David Antin in which he instructed students to make poems out of snippets of text they copied from library books, Acker started making longer prose works with this same method. She would lift passages from existing books, make so
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