It's been awhile but I'm here! Just busy with ??? I don't even know what.
My drawing has slowed down a bit, but I am trying to get back into it. I think I might have to start a daily sketchbook routine again to keep things moving. It is so easy to be the first thing to go when I have a full day.
Something I do is keep a running list on my phone of words and phrases that stick out to me as I am reading articles. I have probably done this for around 5 years now, so the list has grown super long. Some of them feel so obvious now it's funny, like: self-care, attention economy, mindfulness, athleisure, instagrammers!... when I wrote them down, it was the first time I had ever heard the term. Weird how quickly some ideas have been absorbed.
It is hard to pinpoint exactly what triggers me to add to my list. I think it has to do with trying to describe our moment in time. Like what phrases and words really capture the feeling of today. That is the best I can describe it. It's weird. I keep thinking I have to do something with them, like an art project, but maybe it is good to just have them to kind of meditate on...
Anyway, I thought I would share the list here because it is kind of interesting:
Hot Link
Leave the phone alone
Transmedial
Ephemeral Sharing
Our age of Expressive Individualism
I'm not a robot
Ghosting
Radical self-reliance (happy to help others, but not wanting to require others)
To be hybrid anticipates the future
De-growth
The Precariat
The Salariat
Enlightened self-interest
Ordinary mom
Co-dependant mom
Systematic symbolization of the real
Aesthetics of the reflected self
When everything means nothing
Data Dump
Mystical vibes
Creatives. Tastemakers. Content farmers.
He has never given me reason to question who he presents himself to be
Corporate socialism
Meatspace
Career-oriented feminist
Socially conscious capitalism
America’s great reckoning with itself
Self care
Safe space
Post-privacy
Spiritual materialism
Context-warping social media scandals
Virtualism (a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy)
"Social validation feedback loop" that consumes "as much of your time and energy as possible"
Nostalgia for the present
Self-commodification
Soft skills
New nativism
Upper-middle-class pregnancy-industrial complex
New American troll culture
Attention Economy
Post-religious possibility
Micro-targeting
Homonormativity
Whitelash
Je m’en fous: I fucking don’t care.
Modern life space
Aesthetic gentrification
Platform capitalism
Marketplace feminism
Choicelessness
Decision fatigue
Neurotypical
Mindfulness
Independence rather than interdependence
Mindshare
Athleisure
Aloneness together
Performance of the self
Instagrammers
FOMO
JOMO
Signal-based society
Cosmetic class
Consumer-waste complex
Disruptive
Holding space
Leaning in
Post-Weinstein
Wellness
Bio-individuality
Post-truth
Micro-aggressions
Wikipedic superficiality
Cyberphysical
Optimize
Monetize
Technocratic class
Fast Casual
Parasocial relationships
Gamified
Cyberspace socialization
The Happiness Industry
The lifestyle influencer economy
Self-optimization
Post-millennial
Hyper-individualism
Social cleansing
Cool bourgeoisie
Aspirational class
Sharing economy
App-ified
Ecocide
Retail apocalypse
Virtue signalling
Self-parenting
Post-humanism
Digital fascism
Post-gender
Gender creative
Degrowth
Cancel Culture
Aspirational materialism
Televisual culture
Black-adjacent
Queer-adjacent
Dark social
Post-truth and post-shame (politics under Trump’s presidency)
Apocalypse porn
Post-industrial information societies
Market-friendly learning
Microplastic
“User-Generated Content,” or UGC,
Casino Capitalism
Dirt web
Radical Chic