Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
🌺 I'm a designer by academic background, a teacher by chance, a writer by visceral need, and an independent (re)searcher by natural curiosity.
Since its beginning, the web has been a laboratory for identity formation.37 With the relative comfort of physical distance, digital networks can let us experiment with how we want to be perceived, what we want to be called, and how we present ourselves.
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
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
I felt like there was still a lot of room to create a consulting practice that was not just a coldblooded commercial thing, but had an intellectual curiosity to it, and that produced reports that were relevant to a general public, not just to clients. To use consulting as an information-seeking and research process, but not necessarily an art proje
... See moreare.na • An Interview With Emily Segal
Asya uses anthropology’s tools to regard her own specific life and surroundings with curiosity and distance, allowing her to better understand them and to see their meaning and worth.
Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams
“I Don't Even Remember What I Read”: How Design Influences Dissociation on Social Media
dl.acm.org
A thoughtful essay about how our online identities—even when our default mode is misdirection or obfuscation—are visible to the platforms we use, and by extension to capitalism and its prerogatives.