Category: Art
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something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued
Style aside, the thought is great: Dederer’s willing to take you on the trip with her, rather than setting the thesis out in miniature at the start and then unpacking it patiently like an academic.
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composting poptimism / an ecosystemic model of culture
That thing where someone makes an argument you wish you’d made yourself, and furthermore does it in a style whose ugliness belies its incredible efficacy.
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31MAY24 / visual journalling
I’ve been feeling that I am very fortunate to be paid to do interesting things with words. But I am also feeling that I don’t want to find myself totally burned out on words because I haven’t done anything else.
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30MAY24 / Tramps!
As a Nineties kid, I came up knowing (and hating) the 1980s for being a period of superficiality, of “style” and the artifice of appearances, and it’s interesting to hear these pioneers concede those diagnoses, and discuss them in terms of their inheritance of scenes previous.
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begin to remake who we are and how we live
On the one hand, [Buckminster] Fuller’s philosophy of change seems too hopeful now; it’s fair to wonder whether we have time for it.