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Many people have imagined this scenario over the years, of course, usually while high. But recently, a number of philosophers, futurists, science-fiction writers, and technologists—people who share a near-religious faith in technological progress—have come to believe that the simulation argument is not just plausible, but inescapable.
” http://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/what-are-the-odds-we-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation?intcid=mod-latest“We become less patient. When moments without stimulation arise, we start to feel panicked and don’t know what to do with them, because we’ve trained ourselves to expect this stimulation — new notifications and alerts and so on.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/fashion/internet-technology-phones-introspection.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=wide-thumb&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0
From Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
This claim that we are depressed because we are “tired of becoming ourselves” seems like a rebuke to the “never being, always becoming” school of liberation. But it’s more a rejection of the “self as brand equity” position. It suggests how the capitalist demand to always be productive, or, if you prefer, the neoliberal expectation that we will convert our lives into capital that must always be systematically grown, seizes upon the ideal of self-expression and strips it of its dignity.
The point, perhaps, is that self-expression is not inherently ennobling, it is not automatically a morally approvable end in itself. Self-expression requires contextualizing; under certain conditions it is able to become a rewarding aim. Under other conditions, it’s a crappy, endless job.
The idea that conformity is more rewarding and more subversive than entrepreneurial self-fashioning continues to gain steam. It seems to promise the end of the self as capital, of identity as a perpetual spur to the expression of it in various legible, capturable ways. It seems to promise that you will be able to produce something other than yourself in the world.
(Source: robhorningreallife, via thenewinquiry)
I Tried Smell.Dating and It Didn't Stink→
New thing for Racked, was very fun to do.
hah, funny to find out about another smell dating user
(Source: arabellesicardi)
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc)
Came across this in talk between Sarah Henderson and Faye Ginsburg. Reminded me about my recent investigations into posthuman communication.
(Source: youtube.com)
“focus in on your weirdness, your passions, and your fucked-up damage, and be yourself as truly as you can. Express that with as much craft, discipline, and rigor as you can; work as hard as you can to build a career out of that, and then you’ll create a career that you love and that’s true to yourself, as opposed to doing what you think other people want and burning yourself out when you’re older.”
Molly Crabapple on making a career that fits you. (via weshitparacetamol)(via arabellesicardi)
“First and foremost, writing poems should be a pleasure.”
Philip Larkin, The Art of Poetry No. 30
(via theparisreview)
I’ll keep this in mind as I work on my Reading and Writing Electronic Text midterm this week…
“The poem is making its demands of you as you make yours of it.”
Frederick Seidel, The Art of Poetry No. 95
(via theparisreview)
Given my Reading and Writing Electronic Text homework, this feels super real
