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  • jap808
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2012
    • 377

    #16
    Originally posted by Faust View Post
    You aren't the only one. Well, if all of us who miss the glory days come back and contribute... Man is the measure of all things. I like that I'm hearing from some young'uns that they are sick of IG and other social media and wondering why there is no return to the glory days of forum culture.
    Agree x 2.
    Please, young guys, leave that "there is no return to the glory days" to us old guys...
    Also, I regret not contributing more, but my english-flow is not good enough to express my thoughts...

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    • Monologue
      Member
      • May 2020
      • 36

      #17
      When I think of forum culture I think of a community and a movement of sorts. Today young people in art and fashion schools are doing their own things without being part of something larger. There's positives and negatives to that, but I think it also reflects how youth are communicating today through Instagram - very individual, and through an addictive, algorithmic format made to push ads, not creativity. Our most united state is when the shitstain that is Diet Prada calls someone out.

      I think all the time about how to improve this "state of internet discourse". Would young people truly be interested in a forum-like format? I doubt it, but I can never know unless I try. I recently read some young people online call Eugene and SZ gatekeepers - fuck that. I see this place as people who take their interests seriously and care, and it was the same way at previous forums I was in. I won't go as far as saying young people don't care about things anymore, but it's clear that overall attitudes have shifted somehow.

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      • supercilious
        Member
        • Apr 2014
        • 67

        #18
        Today young people in art and fashion schools are doing their own things without being part of something larger.

        I had been thinking about this recently-- To me it seems that the possibility of a "movement" is nulled out by how global/expensive these institutions have become.

        To me it seems that discourse is really limited by the infrastructure-- With modern applications (reddit, discord etc) contributing to conversations needing less attention span and depth. And forums (from friends I have talked to, seeming like ancient unsurmountable pyramids) from internet 1.0. Maybe contributing further to this is the lack of the communal feeling enjoyed by you first Gen Users 10 odd years ago, and an "easy tool" to get caught up to date. Perhaps on accident the medium encouraged a generational divide.

        At one point in my undergraduate career I considered pursuing a PHD in "Digital Archeology"-- This place had been so meaningful in forming my own identity, and I don't think we currently have the tools to summate the knowledge, community, etc of SZ. I thought one day curious people would stumble onto this forum the same way that Archeologists come across ancient ruins...

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        • Faust
          kitsch killer
          • Sep 2006
          • 37852

          #19
          Originally posted by Monologue View Post
          When I think of forum culture I think of a community and a movement of sorts. Today young people in art and fashion schools are doing their own things without being part of something larger. There's positives and negatives to that, but I think it also reflects how youth are communicating today through Instagram - very individual, and through an addictive, algorithmic format made to push ads, not creativity. Our most united state is when the shitstain that is Diet Prada calls someone out.

          I think all the time about how to improve this "state of internet discourse". Would young people truly be interested in a forum-like format? I doubt it, but I can never know unless I try. I recently read some young people online call Eugene and SZ gatekeepers - fuck that. I see this place as people who take their interests seriously and care, and it was the same way at previous forums I was in. I won't go as far as saying young people don't care about things anymore, but it's clear that overall attitudes have shifted somehow.

          I'm about to drop something so major that a lot of people are going to hate me even more... for putting the mirror in front of them...
          Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

          StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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          • Skye X
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2010
            • 180

            #20
            Originally posted by Faust View Post
            I'm about to drop something so major that a lot of people are going to hate me even more... for putting the mirror in front of them...
            Well now you've gone and gotten us all excited. Do you have an eta?

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            • Monologue
              Member
              • May 2020
              • 36

              #21
              SZ 2.0? Either way, very excited for whatever it may be.

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              • Faust
                kitsch killer
                • Sep 2006
                • 37852

                #22
                Originally posted by Skye X View Post
                Well now you've gone and gotten us all excited. Do you have an eta?

                Next week! Just another article, monologue, but definitely very much in Faustian vein ;-)
                Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                • zamb
                  Senior Member
                  • Nov 2006
                  • 5834

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Faust View Post
                  Next week! Just another article, monologue, but definitely very much in Faustian vein ;-)
                  Drop it like its hott!!!!!!!!!!
                  “You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
                  .................................................. .......................


                  Zam Barrett Spring 2017 Now in stock

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                  • Monologue
                    Member
                    • May 2020
                    • 36

                    #24
                    Originally posted by supercilious View Post
                    Today young people in art and fashion schools are doing their own things without being part of something larger.

                    I had been thinking about this recently-- To me it seems that the possibility of a "movement" is nulled out by how global/expensive these institutions have become.

                    To me it seems that discourse is really limited by the infrastructure-- With modern applications (reddit, discord etc) contributing to conversations needing less attention span and depth. And forums (from friends I have talked to, seeming like ancient unsurmountable pyramids) from internet 1.0. Maybe contributing further to this is the lack of the communal feeling enjoyed by you first Gen Users 10 odd years ago, and an "easy tool" to get caught up to date. Perhaps on accident the medium encouraged a generational divide.

                    I was reading an interview with the late Mark Fisher and he spoke about something that made me think about this again;

                    "In a roundtable you did with Green Gartside from Scriti Politi, he used a great term: ‘critical admixture’. So, around the music bands made, particularly with punk and post-punk, there was this ‘critical admixture’, which was taking ideas from philosophy, taking ideas from social movements, and using the whole lot to mount a challenge to the mainstream. So actually, is it that ‘critical admixture’ which has been stripped away?

                    Yes, this is what I’m talking about in this book, and the melancholy is kind of about that. That critical admixture is what formed me. You know, my education didn’t come from school, which I hated, it came from reading NME. Which again, NME is like Channel 4 I think, if you want to look at the decline of British culture over the last 30 years look at what the NME was like then to what it’s like now. But there was that public service broadcasting via Channel 4 and the BBC, and this wider supporting culture. And art colleges were a big part of that, Green went to Leeds, and you know the re-embourgeoisement of art colleges is significant. It’s what happens with apparently banal changes in funding structures. If you make people pay for their own education, then we will see the consequences of that. One of the things we haven’t talked about is the class domination of things like popular culture and popular music. The absurd number of ex-private school kids who are now dominating the indie scene or whatever. Because only they can afford it; only they can afford to get into the networks where culture happens. The absurd myth of neoliberalism is that creativity is this infinite well-spring which is equally distributed amongst human beings and it’s only blocked by the State or socialists. But of course, it’s the exact opposite. The creativity only happens when there are the conditions for it and collective conditions of one kind or another, and it’s those collective conditions and that critical admixture which has been systematically dismantled."

                    -

                    The same thing Fisher describes here is happening in art and fashion schools. The internet is supposedly liberating and democratising access to fashion for all, but tuitions to get into recognised institutions are getting higher and higher.
                    Last edited by Monologue; 07-30-2020, 10:57 AM. Reason: clarity

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                    • ZackJones
                      Junior Member
                      • Jun 2020
                      • 6

                      #25
                      It seems to me that today the level of culture and intelligence of the younger generation has dropped so much that they are no longer able to conduct an interesting dialogue. They have only enough intelligence to argue or post dirty pictures.

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                      • Bodique
                        Member
                        • Mar 2012
                        • 63

                        #26
                        I just want to say that this forum made me research a lot of topics which does not related to fashion and it was my way to get out of depression and showed that far away from place I'm in there are lot of interesting people who share my beliefs and concepts. I'm still gratefull for discovering this place which made me better.

                        I agree about people from Russia (post-soviet) cause first 2 years I was too shy to write what I think.
                        «Страдания жизни неразумной приводят к сознанию необходимости разумной жизни.»
                        Лев Николаевич Толстой

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                        • Faust
                          kitsch killer
                          • Sep 2006
                          • 37852

                          #27
                          I've learned so much from this forum's members - about music, art, books, etc. - it's incredible.
                          Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                          StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                          • sideshow
                            Junior Member
                            • Mar 2021
                            • 6

                            #28
                            Thank you Monologue, whatever field you're dealing with, you will find systematic oppression. The divide greatens with time.
                            ___

                            I have never been a big Instagram user. I used it actively in grade 9 and 10: Facebook, much the same. I think the exploitation of these platforms through big-data sharing has pushed me further away from them. The ever so egocentric TikToks have spewed over into the IG pool, which was already so intoxicated with egoist poison. The algorithm is truly trash. As mentioned in this thread, it doesn't create an extensive dialogue. Any relationship made, be it business, platonic or romantic, is usually private and depends on your profile, followers, and likes.
                            For the average user, it becomes a competition, which opens another entry point for exploitation.
                            Perhaps social engineering?

                            Not only FB and IG, but Youtube too (never used Twitter.)
                            What Youtube is good for is dialogue, to a certain degree. I recommend changing profiles when you start predicting their recommendations. I only realised how mad it was that I had been using the same account for eight years, making you wonder about all the data collected throughout the years.
                            How many videos did you watch at your own will?


                            I do not consider myself a conspiracy theorist, but I consider how much power I give to new technology.
                            These centralised platforms do not serve to be social anymore.

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