Very Internet Person

“IT IS ONLY THROUGH A RECOGNITION OF THE FAILURES OF PREVIOUS MODES OF SINCERITY IN ART THAT THESE SAME CULTURAL ARTIFACTS MAY BE REDEEMED. 

We are in an era of hyperreferentiality in cultural production. Images/artworks/aesthetics from myriad different historical periods function interchangeably in a sea of reference facilitated by online networks.” — Nate Sloan 

a thought-provoking article from one of my favorite publications, “do not research.” 

https://legacy.donotresearch.net/posts/beyond-based-and-cringe

artist and internet diarist 🗡️ decentralized socialite ✨

https://linktr.ee/tinyrainboot

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

It's been to be fun and ironic when everything was skeuomorphic, but now that everything is sort of fake, and cringe and irony has lost its take. We want real tangible grass again

I should have known you would have caught that donotresearch post! I forgot that it was you who first showed me that page. @tinyrainboot I was just reading through this article over the weekend and it got me thinking. 

Do either of you think that the concept of “touching grass” is evolving into the very rejection of cringe/based irony that the post-cringe aesthetic requires? It is after all, a call to detach from the irony and narrative saturated internet in favor of genuine and present experiences.