#postmodernism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #postmodernism, aggregated by home.social.
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Our failure to mediate the mess
The current #AI boom is built on a huge contradiction, you can see this in #mainstreaming terms. That AI companies are not paying the real costs of what they consume. They haven't paid for the copyrighted material they trained on. They haven't paid the environmental costs of the water and electricity they use. They haven't paid for the pressure they place on public infrastructure, or for the social costs of flooding the web with synthetic content. Yet AI services are sold below their true […] -
#Nicenasty the hidden power of soft obstruction
People think in groups, that's normal. The mistake isn't group thinking itself, it's pretending we're all isolated individuals while still acting through tribes, identities, and social blocs. A lot of today's "common sense" comes from the #stupidindividualism group mindset. We are encouraged to see every problem through individual choices rather than collective realities. The real question isn't "how do we stop group thinking?" It's "what do we do with it?" This mess is something we need to […]https://hamishcampbell.com/nicenasty-the-hidden-power-of-soft-obstruction/
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#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)
#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components.” — Umberto Eco
2025 feels like an Eco novel: Normal persons everywhere.
Meet Schmalk’s patron saint — the man, the myth, the legend.
#Schmalk #UmbertoEco #Culture #Philosophy #MediaCritique #Postmodernism #InternetCulture #CulturalTheory
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In 2010, Jon Reed and myself won a public art competition in Cleveland. The installation was there for about a year. The following article appeared on BLDGblog. See the following discussion about Postmodernism by Lebbeus Woods and Geoff Manaugh.
ב 2010 ג'ון ריד ואנוכי זכינו בתחרות אומנות ציבורית בקליבלנד אוהיו בארה"ב. המיצב היה שם בערך שנה ובעקבותיו החל דיון משעשע באתר BLDGblog בין לוביוס וודס וג'ף מנו.
https://bldgblog.com/2010/07/buried-buildings-like-icebergs-in-the-ground/
#PublicArt #Cleveland #Ohio #Postmodernism #אומנות #אומנותציבורית -
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