A core contemplation among the Rune Soup Premium Membership for 2024 -which will be amplified in 2025- is to find one’s points of consent and departure with what is going on everywhere.
As I’m sure you do, I often think about this in the context of digital platforms, connectivity and authentic belonging. For instance, I live in southern Tasmania -Australia’s southernmost municipality. I am closer to Antarctica than I am to the top of the country. Living down here means I rely heavily on digital platforms for connection with friends and family. But I can only live down here because of those platforms: They offer me an apparently pseudo-connection because I am so far away, but I am only this far away because of those connections. I want my friends to be here in person, but I won’t turn down their digital avatars if the alternative is having no connection.
Part of the -correct, nonetheless- diminishing of digital connections when compared to physical ones is because the digital connections are believed to be identical to the physical, or even possible replacements. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter and actual butter.
But actually, if you approach them with the right intention and attitude, digital engagements facilitate true connections at the level of the field. Plot twist: So do physical connections. They just do them in a proximal way, and with more fidelity.
This is a consent/departure thing. You can co-creatively step into this potential of digital connectivity while departing from that potential of it (doom scrolling TikTok at 2am).
So that’s my little preamble to a couple of pieces of content from me this week that are intended to fly together.
The first is a solo show called There Is Only Ever One Revolution: The Invisibles As Model of Belonging.
And the next is my latest YouTube video, which is about how to polarise correctly and even why you might want to do so.
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