I attempted to take those articles on poor images and poor media and place the concept on music: https://musicx.substack.com/p/in-defence-of-music-as-poor-media

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FRUGAL: “ The poverty of poor media should be better called frugality, since it’s characterized by the conscious, serene renunciation of embellishments in favor of accessibility and spread. The spartan look of poor media might not be beautiful, but it’s undoubtedly charming.”

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WRETCHED: “Poor images are dragged around the globe as commodities or their effigies, as gifts or as bounty. They spread pleasure or death threats, conspiracy theories or bootlegs, resistance or stultification. Poor images show the rare, the obvious, and the unbelievable—that is, if we can still manage to decipher it.”

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What’s interesting about this piece, getting some traction over the last days, is how its lite-doomerism makes no mention of blockchains! Only a few years ago blockchains were a primary element in narratives of a network uncaringly optimised for computational agents autonomously redistributing capital. Isn’t it typical of doomerism to underestimate the capacity of humans to mess up even the most perfectly bleak singularity? https://mirror.xyz/ramonmarc.eth/1G9oLJWblzK1u8rLxIcgqjYO0uULbS3LyBTePqLHmok

I’m curating and posting regular articles on digital community, lore-craft, and design at Foklore. In the Folklore channel here and the Telegram feed linked at https://folklore.institute

By way of follow-up on the Remilia Quarterly piece posted a few weeks ago, this is McKenzie Wark on the contemporary politics of cuteness. https://www.frieze.com/article/mckenzie-wark-politics-cuteness-246?utm_source=FRIEZE&utm_campaign=1bdc721c5d-newsletter-politics-cuteness&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0ebe20dcf-1bdc721c5d-519502209

BRANDING AND THE OPEN WORK: It’s a year since my piece about headless brands and Folklore’s adoption of the labyrinth as an open-ended icon was published. https://folklore.mirror.xyz/v3KHFm-Fz288fjTIcp5Gd63rXoANBewXqbypQqZesSw

gm does any Folklore member plan to take part in our Nouns writing contest? If so, I'd be happy to answer all questions via DMs!

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MEMETIC COMPENDIUM: "Memes don’t care if they’re true; they just need to be catchy enough to replicate." The Memetics Compendium is 1600 pages FROM 2008! exploring the concept of memes as cultural units of transmission, similar to genes, that replicate and spread ideas, behaviors, and beliefs through societies. It delves into the potential military applications of memetic warfare, particularly in psychological operations, propaganda, and information manipulation to influence adversaries' behavior and morale. The document collects essays and research on how memes evolve, propagate, and can be weaponized for strategic advantage in both conventional and asymmetric warfare contexts. Compiled By Dr. Robert Finkelstein, President, Robotic Technology Inc.

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Published on October 19, 2024 at 06:16PM

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On the calcification of computing metaphors: “Our software interfaces are fiercely rigid; they can’t be meaningfully nudged — in big ways or small — to more closely reflect our mental models or meet our individual needs.” https://alexanderobenauer.com/think/

This 2012 essay is in resonance with Kei Kreutler’s ‘How to Repair a Spaceport’, recently-published by Folklore. https://www.kabk.nl/en/lectorates/design/understanding-repair-peter-maxwell

There seems to be a renewal of interest in the idea of distribution first design. https://hipcityreg.substack.com/p/distribution-determined-design

Insight into digital extractive farming (spam)

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CULTURE OUTPERFORMS PEDAGOGICAL STRICTURE: On manipulating social hierarchies to seed desirous memes in Jesuit colleges and Montessori schools. https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/culture-studies

How do you recognise a maker culture from other types of cultures?

On parasocial worlds and being absorbed. “In historical critiques, reading was condemned not just as a form of insubordination but as an addictive process that threatened the reader’s ability to come back from fantasy and into reality again.” https://reallifemag.com/take-me-away/

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