what does it take to sustain radical movements of care?
links we saved last month
our fave long(er) reads:
Are "algorithms" making us boring? ()
What it’s asking: What are we really talking about when we’re talking about “algorithm” anxiety? (And can we really blame the idea of “the algorthim” for as much as we do?)
Favorite quote:
That’s the case because the book is not really an argument about globalization or its attendant cultural homogenization, so much as it is the articulation of anxiety about taste on the part of a relatively small demographic cohort. Am I boring now? Are we all boring? Do I even know what boring is? “On the consumer side, the bombardment of recommendations can induce a kind of hypnosis that makes listening to, watching, or buying a product all but inevitable--whether it aligns with your taste or not,” Chayka writes. The danger of the algorithm is that it makes us imperfect shoppers.
Community care & relationship building combats burnout in political movements ()
What it’s asking: How can we sustain movements of radical care, without building intimate relationships in which we truly care for one another?
Favorite quote:
Often, movements in the west embody values of the capitalist/ colonial systems they are seeking to dismantle— there is a fixation on productivity and getting things done while relationship building, emotional vulnerability and cultural practices are deprioritized. People organize together for months without knowing details about each other’s lives. Goal-oriented meetings, task lists, action planning and DOING are seen as important while spending time together for the sake of building intimacy is often at best seen as an optional activity or at worst, completely overlooked. A group that doesn’t know each other or care for each other is a group that is always at the brink of burnout and collapse. It is only a matter of time.
our picks from instagram:
Many Palestinians are running their devices solely on eSims–$8 can offer someone in Gaza a week of internet connection, $20 will get a full month!
(and maybe stop calling conference room meetings a “Pow Wow”)
our picks from tumblr:
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