Algorithms erode objectivity
Becoming Attention Literate
This collection intends to raise awareness of how radicalisation happens. Compiled of ideas, techniques, and self, the ultimate vision for the collection is a life-sized diorama of disconnection harmonising the sacred and profane. Encouraging independent interpretation and expression.
Our electronic devices are mind casinos, trade your individuality for social and cultural capital, your mental energy and drive for dopamine spikes. A gravitationally unbound media surplus truly captivates many. When we do venture out, our public spaces have turned into egregious demonstrations of marketing textbooks.
With feeds all being tailored to maximise time spent, the feeds become more of a growth hormone in specific directions. These in turn create alternate realities as some people simply are not fed the content that disagrees with them.
Their app will be your life.
Beware hyper focused intellectual guide rails. Free thought leads to peace.
Use tech,
do not be used by.
Conceptual space is porous
Content (/kənˈtent/)
Con-TENT = happy or satisfied (adjective)
CON-tent = all that is contained inside something (noun)
CON-tent 2 = information made available by a website or other electronic medium (noun)
True wealth is privacy
You are no longer the product – you are the cost – your personal life.
You are consumed.
Content can steal present awareness and translate it to future tense while skirting around the class anxieties being played on. This is a systematically curated generator of anger, tribalism, and polarisation.
“Public memory is about power relations”
– Ana Lucia Araujo
“Memory is not a passive depository of facts, but an active process of creation of meanings”
– Alejandro Portelli
“The scientist, the entrepreneur, the photographer, the coach, you name it—each relies on the ability to notice that which previously seemed invisible. There’s no creativity without attention.”
– Rob Walker
Idea Osmosis Vs. Blue Print Copying
Our attention has been commodified and has been spread so thin that creativity has been stunted. The majority of internet users limit their vision of creativity to platform specific output.
Art can be expression, which can then be converted to – or appropriated as – content. The issue many are beginning to see lies at the delineation of observer and the observed. There is now a difference between the two, and a fragmented third, the performed observer.
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