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Navigating the Slippery Fusion of Entertainment, Documentary and Indoctrination
If the 20th century taught us to be literate, the 21st must teach us to be perceptually sovereign. In an era where belief is engineered and perception curated, our deepest freedom lies in our ability to hold the line between story and truth, between being moved and being manipulated.
Slow-Profit DAOs and Cultural Infrastructure: A New Commons for Systemic Change
At the heart of Art Stoke Commons is a quiet but radical belief: You cannot have sustainable systems change or social impact without a decentralised, slow-profit social economy. This isn’t ideology. It’s structural necessity.
Composting the Bypass: Entanglement, Grief, and the Pitfalls of Post-Anthropocentric Movements
Are some post-anthropocentric movements — from mycelial networks to rhizomatic thinking, biomimicry to planetary intelligence — bypassing cultural healing by retreating into nature metaphors?
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Breaking Free: Rethinking Career Gaps and the Value of Unconventional Paths
In a world where productivity is often equated with uninterrupted career progress, gaps in employment are frequently viewed with suspicion, especially by hiring managers and corporate culture. This taboo, perpetuated by institutions like academia, media, and corporations, sustains a narrative that defines success through continuous employment, discouraging deviations from the conventional career trajectory. However, as […]
Decentralizing Art Funding: How Blockchain Creates Transparent Ecosystems
The future of art funding doesn’t lie in replicating old systems with new tools – it lies in reimagining the entire framework.
What happened to Invictus Capital, their NFT Lab and CEO Daniel Schwartzkopff?
In April 2022, just after the Out Of Africa NFT Collection was auctioned on OpenSea, the founder and CEO of Invictus Capital, Daniel Schwartzkopff was forced to tender his resignation during an Invictus board meeting. Invictus Capital is a regulated asset manager and crypto fund provider, and the Invictus NFT Lab a blockchain-based platform to […]
