“You know, technology wasn't invented by us humans. Just the other way around.”— Jean-Francois Lyotard, “Can Thought Go On Without A Body?” I haven’t been able to really grasp the enormity of rounding out a decade. At all. I feel like a very different human going into 2020 than I did at the start of 2010, and when I think back on the most noticeable shifts in my life over the last ten years, one of the first things that comes to mind is social media. Specifically Instagram, and Instagram Stories. Not the fact of it, but the impact of being able to see so much at once, so many modalities of existence all around. How incredibly powerful it feels to make content out of my life. How much I love doing it, how much joy it brings me to parcel out bits of myself that feel useful, informative, beautiful, introspective. How it makes me feel like I’m part of a bigger tapestry and community. I marvel at all of the connections and collaborations and business opportunities that sharing myself online has brought into my life. How it feels when all of that lushness turns on me. How deep and grim the spirals can get, have gotten, will get.
my decade of (dis)contentment
my decade of (dis)contentment
my decade of (dis)contentment
“You know, technology wasn't invented by us humans. Just the other way around.”— Jean-Francois Lyotard, “Can Thought Go On Without A Body?” I haven’t been able to really grasp the enormity of rounding out a decade. At all. I feel like a very different human going into 2020 than I did at the start of 2010, and when I think back on the most noticeable shifts in my life over the last ten years, one of the first things that comes to mind is social media. Specifically Instagram, and Instagram Stories. Not the fact of it, but the impact of being able to see so much at once, so many modalities of existence all around. How incredibly powerful it feels to make content out of my life. How much I love doing it, how much joy it brings me to parcel out bits of myself that feel useful, informative, beautiful, introspective. How it makes me feel like I’m part of a bigger tapestry and community. I marvel at all of the connections and collaborations and business opportunities that sharing myself online has brought into my life. How it feels when all of that lushness turns on me. How deep and grim the spirals can get, have gotten, will get.