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social media as feeling plugged in to the sense-currents of the universe https://t.co/QVTzHiSYRU
hypothesis one of the draws of social media is soul memory of feeling sensorially plugged into the shifting current of the world ability to sense the shifting breeze, rustling leaves, fungal hyphae lacing soil beneath our feet & passing chemical messages from tree to tree - https://t.co/SA7goqIRbl
@visakanv would probably agree https://t.co/nh6fkocOXv
One of my lifelong background fascinations is to study ads as a proxy for studying the state of media, people’s self-image, sense of being perceived, etc. have a draft of a book called Optics that’s about this. I distinctly remember being startled the first time I saw a gta v ad https://t.co/Spr7QPhsnq
@AskYatharth yea https://t.co/zMz5DEcxLA
it’s really terrifying and beautiful when you connect the dots and see how a string of QTs and replies is a map of people’s dysfunctions and fears. Twitter is a collaborative freeform MMO text-theater that reaches right into people’s guts and the writhing collective unconscious