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My Beef with the Modern Commodification of the Self
Why "getting paid to exist" isn't all it's cut out to be (and other thoughts on the rise of excessively performative content creation)
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The Lost Art of the Rabbit Hole
We used to look things up for fun in the pursuit of ourselves
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Should We Adapt "White Stories" to Cultivate Black Entertainment?
A wide-angle lens look at The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah Kubi & how diversified adaptations become their own original works of art
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Utopia Lies in the Balance
And I fear we will never get there
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Your Small Business Probably Doesn't Need to Exist
Our personal responsibility as small business owners to simply do better in a market dictated by big box, corporate machines
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Empower Your Scrolling Habits with Cognizance
Examining a petri dish of social media users to better understand how social media controls our online worlds
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Stop Televising the Discotheque
And other meditations on partying for clout
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field notes: Welcome to "Messy Dialectic" and "field notes"
A belated introduction, but that's okay!
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The Ethics of Going Viral
Your fake internet persona has real world consequences.
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Where is the Future that We Seek?
"Nostalgiacore," "Hopecore," "Sillycore," & the internet's longing for simpler times
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