#postmodernism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #postmodernism, aggregated by home.social.
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Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets look at why we need to act on the digital drug problem. The everyday digital drug fix starts with a notification, you pick up your phone because you get a notification. You unlock it, check the notification. Then maybe you look at one thing, then another, then another and suddenly an hour have disappeared. You didn't decide to spend the next hour staring at short videos selected by a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-common-sense-is-a-cage-we-dont-have-to-worship-this-mess/
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Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets look at why we need to act on the digital drug problem. The everyday digital drug fix starts with a notification, you pick up your phone because you get a notification. You unlock it, check the notification. Then maybe you look at one thing, then another, then another and suddenly an hour have disappeared. You didn't decide to spend the next hour staring at short videos selected by a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-common-sense-is-a-cage-we-dont-have-to-worship-this-mess/
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* The right-wing feeds on division.
* The left should grow from trust.
That sounds like #KISS because it is. But this simple truth is buried under decades of ideological shit: #Stalinism's dead weight, #Postmodernism's fog, #Neoliberalism's rot, and now the wider social, political and technological mess they have all helped leave behind.
We don't need to pretend this history didn't happen. We need to understand it,
then we need to compost it, turn the pile, let it breathe, pull apart the assumptions.Keep what is useful, let the rotten parts decay, turn all that accumulated failure into something fertile.
Because the alternative to the right-wing politics of fear, division and permanent culture war is not just another set of slogans.
It is trust, not being nice to everyone. Trust is built through doing things together, being accountable, showing your working, admitting mistakes, sharing power and staying around long enough to learn from failure.
* That is why the #commons matters.
* That is why the #openweb matters.
And that is why the demand to “use the proper channels” is so often a trap.
* Who owns those channels?
* Who wrote the rules?
* Who staffs the committees?
* Who decides what counts as legitimate?
Too often the machinery of #mainstreaming is designed to absorb dissent without allowing dissent to change anything. You submit the form, attend the consultation, become a stakeholder, write the response, wait for the committee.
You get thanked for your valuable contribution and then nothing changes. The energy is drained away, and the existing power remains exactly where it was. This is not always a conspiracy. It doesn't need to be. Systems reproduce power simply because that is what they have been designed to do.
And this is what really scares the #fashionistas and #mainstreaming crew about grassroots alternatives: We don't need them. We can walk away, build our own infrastructure, our own media. We build trust through doing things together - that is the important bit.
The answer isn't to create another closed alternative controlled by another small group of experts. That would just be more of the same, the answer is open process, the #4opens.
This is where #OMN fits, not as another shiny platform competing for attention, but as part of a longer #openweb reboot: grassroots news, archiving and eventually governance built around federation, trust, participation and shared infrastructure.
We don't need to win their game, we need to stop playing it. Their machine runs on division, attention, status and extraction. Our alternative has to run on participation, trust, memory, care and shared power.
So yes, there is a huge pile of shit in front of us. Social shit, political shit, technological shit, institutional shit, funding shit and #techshit.
We don't deny the pile, we pick up the shovel,
we turn it over, we compost it. And we use whatever fertile ground comes out of it to grow something living.That's the work, together.
#OMN #KISS #4opens #openweb #commons #deathcult #mainstreaming #fashionistas #techshit
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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 […] -
Another 100th birthday already: John Fowles, author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Magus" & many other Postmodern novels, was #BOTD 100 years ago.
Find many of his works & secondary works of #LiteraryStudies on Fowles in our collection! -
PICTURE ANN ADHERES TO THE LAW OF WHISPERS AND LOW VOICES
https://eternal-terror.com/?p=72733RELEASE YEAR: 2025BAND URL: https://orcd.co/picture-ann-whispers
The villainous purveyors of all things weirdly dark and strangely melancholy are at it again; their “The Law of Whispers and Low Voices” single was released on September 12 by the consistently brilliant Gymnocal Industries and is available in all the relevant digital music stores out there. In addition to the title track, […]
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End of the Road:
John Barth
American postmodernist novelist dies aged 93Along with William #Gass, Stanley #Elkins and other peers, #Barth was part of a wave of writers in the 1960s who challenged standards of language and plot.
The author of 20 books including Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor, Barth was a college writing instructor who advocated for #postmodernism to literature, saying old forms were used up and new approaches were needed.
Barth’s passion for literary theory and his innovative but complicated novels made him a writer’s writer.
Barth said he felt like Scheherazade in The Thousand and One Nights, desperately trying to survive by creating literature.
He created a bestseller in 1966 with 🔹Giles Goat-Boy,🔹 which turned a college campus into a microcosm of a world threatened by the cold war, and made a hero of a character who is part goat.
The following year, he wrote a postmodern manifesto, 🔸The Literature of Exhaustion, 🔸which argued that the traditional novel suffered from a “used-upness of certain forms.”
The influential essay described the postmodern writer as one who “confronts an intellectual dead end and employs it against itself to accomplish new human work”.
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My profile: https://leeds.academia.edu/DrIanMcCormick
Some of my interests:
#language #literature #reading #thinking #books #TeamEnglish #engchat #engchatuk #linguistics #creativity #writing #humanities #culture #ideology #postcolonial #history #medieval #research #renaissance #18thCentury #grotesque #19thCentury #monstrous #VictorianStudies #modernism #postModernism #Shakespeare #Gothic #history #research #etymology #17thcentury #teaching #pedagogy #drama #baroque
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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