carsten knoch: essays + ideas

Roxy Paine sculptures in Madison Square Park

April 24, 2016December 18, 2007Culture Life

I was in New York in October and ran into these sculptures in Madison Square Park. They’re quite beautiful: life-sized shiny metal trees that oddly blend into the surroundings. I had no idea they were there… it had been one … [read more]

In the age of Twitter and Facebook…

August 7, 2011December 11, 2007Life

… it seems a little quaint to start a blog. I’m only – what? Two, three, even four years late with this? :) Well, suddenly it feels as if carving out a small space on the web for myself where … [read more]

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Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Dec 3, 1:18 pm

“Once office work and socializing went online, everyone looked terrible. People had mastered how to take a good selfie, but starring in a high-quality live video in front of co-workers or romantic prospects is a different beast entirely.” https://buff.ly/3pLMmBw

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Nov 29, 7:04 pm

"Even our small consumer choices or our musings about what to do this weekend now bring us back to the overpowering reality of the pandemic. We can't escape it. Our daydreams come crashing back to earth: 2020 is the year that the future was cancelled." https://buff.ly/2VkyKzb

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Nov 29, 12:58 pm

“The internet is an ideal medium for untested information to get around traditional gatekeepers, but it is an accelerant of the paranoia, not its source. Distrust and precarity, caused by economic, cultural and spiritual threat, are the source.” https://buff.ly/39imjMN

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Nov 26, 2:46 pm

"Mishler has plucked the underlying assumption of yoga — that everybody on earth needs help with something — and rejected all the elements that can be off-putting: the crystals, the perfectionism, the ego, the expensive clothes, the competitiveness." https://buff.ly/33h1TzZ

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Nov 25, 5:44 pm

“In a pandemic, what is individually rational can be collectively disastrous.” https://buff.ly/2JeWx0F

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Nov 23, 2:40 pm

“Even before coronavirus struck, home working had been rising steadily for a decade. Pundits predicted that it would increase further. No one imagined that a dramatic spike would come so soon.” https://buff.ly/3h647X9

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Nov 22, 10:49 pm

"All the dreams you show up in are not your own." — Gil Scott-Heron

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Nov 19, 1:02 pm

"Perhaps the lesson to take from this year of living online is not just about making better, more humane work-and-learn-from-anywhere technology. It is about recognizing technology's limits." https://buff.ly/2IRz4Tm

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Nov 18, 1:46 pm

“We were talking about it over lunch and decided we no longer wanted to feel embarrassed about poor English usage.” https://buff.ly/3pDvUU3

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Nov 16, 5:53 pm

“It’s time to buckle up and lock ourselves down again, and to do so with fresh vigilance. Remember: We are barely nine or 10 months into this pandemic, and we have not experienced a full-blown fall or winter season.” https://buff.ly/3eXmAFL