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1. D Dino (garbados@toot.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 08:34:03 EDT D Dino

   i like watching black mirror. it’s like reading a barometer.

   black mirror struggles to articulate a structural critique of modernity and so instead is left with “what if” scenarios that have generally already happened, that happen in isolated fragments of modernity.

   it strikes me that climate change is not a constant companion of these stories. episodes rarely deal with the climate at all; it’s a separate “what if” entirely.

   1. D Dino (garbados@toot.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 09:05:43 EDT D Dino

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      it sometimes feels like black mirror is trying to “say what everyone is already thinking” but the trouble then is that i’m exhausted of thinking it already. “phones bad” “capitalism bad” “computer bad” yawn yawn yawn

      i want stories and art that not only confront that intersection of late capitalism and ecodoom, but that take the structural critique as pretense to explore how to do right by each other amid the bleakness, as individuals and communities.