was planning a coffee with someone from a filmmaking class i had recently taken and we were kicking logistics back and forth and they dropped this gem and it rolled off the tongue just a little too well
for the last six months iāve used this every chance Iāve gotten and i do not plan on stopping any time soon
Mar 26, 2024
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so easy to sprinkle into everyday convo. also so fun to say.
May 18, 2024
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this feels so retro and cheeky to do. itāll get a laugh the first time and then if you keep it up it becomes a running bit or better yet, a catchphrase?! try it for yourself
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason itās still standing is bc itās unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isnāt just charting the attention economy but also attempting to āsolveā it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024
