Culture 🏛️
Like woods and trees, culture is hard to see from the inside. Other things on this blog may also be ‘culture’ but they have their own category.
Floating Worlds
Earlier this month I spoke at ‘Open Croissant’ a fringe event coinciding with ETHGlobal. What is interesting was how the event came to be.
What the Hell Is Going On? | 2243
Steady state capitalist realism and cultural fracking has got so bad they are rebooting the damn moon landings.
Grown and Grown
I went to a 40th birthday over the weekend and the night was wall to wall Jungle.
Speed Barbie, Racer Knight | 2217
The New Barbie Movie, Cultural Fracking, my aphantasia and why Speed Racer is a much better movie than The Dark Knight
Urgent Anxiety | 2147
The dream about running and not getting anywhere has escaped the night. We are living it.
A Dormant Brand Powered Down | 2106
“Zoom cat filter lawyer passes torch to upside-down budget zordon” and corporate twitter accounts are like Gundams?
Captain Swing | 2034
The 1830’s Swing’s Riots were a disaster for British the working class.
All Art Is Dust Eventually | 2025
In celebration of ‘give it a go’ art restoration.
Craving Canon
Canon, fandom, solarpunk, narrative, cultural fracking and other problems with story worlds in 2020
Spider-Man’s MCU No Deal Webxit | 1921
Cultural Fracking and fandom being dispossessed of their stories by private interests.
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[Media Property Name] Isn’t Your Friend | 1914
We need anti trust laws for culture. What are we to do when our cultural heritage is owned by a corporation?
General Ludd | 1828
Luddites were opposed only to technology ‘hurtful to Commonality’/ What are the wide frames of today? which bits of the stack need a visit at midnight?
Do what you can
There is so much utter nonsense going on in the world right now, it is difficult to fathom it all. But knowing that you have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on is a great help.
Learn how to feel
You do not know what the fuck is going on. Your job is to be absolutely certain that you have no idea what the fuck is going on.
auto-tune the muse
comparing auto-tune to instagram is problematic for me as the two are associated with different mediums and the two are not completly analogous. so we can only really speak in aesthetic subjective terms. by ragesoss (own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via wikimedia commons there is an important difference between the way an instagram filter is applied…
![[Media Property Name] Isn’t Your Friend | 1914](https://www.thejaymo.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/4497586087_a4d69e3030_b.jpg)
