context collapse

Last updated Aug 15, 2023

• Source:
  • Robin Sloan; Sources/Ortographic media - Article
  • Jasmine Sun; Sources/Half-Baked Futures - Newsletter
• Keywords: Cards/permanent notes
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  • Cards/Sonder
  • Cards/Everyone always acts in accordance with their internal narratives
  • Cards/Secondary reflection

• Context collapse is the standardization of all events to fit in one generic timeline. Other definitions: ==flattening== multiple audiences into a single context, or multiple audiences revolve around singular communicative acts….etc. Basically lack of perspective. See Julie Zhou’s Looking Glass.

the ==standardization== of all events, no matter how big or small, delightful or traumatic, to fit the same mashed-together timeline.