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We live in the Land of Net and Money.


Glitched urban gentrification image sourced at 44.961490, -93.187898

Sedentary work, coffee trips, bathroom breaks unending. Small talk, absurd politic, looking longingly at accidents on the freeway. Illusions of choice sold on the daily. Reality splits and new digital societies emerge to influence our daily lives. Our brains become connected with social media networks.

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A stream of input strikes the brain as it surfs social media. Warning! Prolonged exposure to dominant personal brands trigger increases of negative self-evaluations. We bait for validation and become addicted to positive feedback loops. While our network has expanded, our empathy has not been able to keep up.

Human nature extends into a digital realm. We adulterate it with our own primal human nature. It responds in kind. From our reflections of it's surface we see communication as domination. Stories as meta-warfare. Our chairs make us uncomfortable. Eyes glaze over from luminescent displays. Extended sitting punctuated only by frustrated pacing.

Everything can be commodified. Every rebellious act can be assimilated into the system without fear of dissonance, worse yet, each opposition is harmoniously rejoined into our status quo.

American arteries filled with fast food capitalism. Human appetite dissected for fiduciary responsibilities. This knowledge weaponized against us. Their target the Anatomy of Human Vulnerability. The pleasure of eating can become an aspect of our identity. Our collective health is not free of booms and busts.

All the while we are tricked into eating out of the trashcan of ideology. The essence of our humanity is an asset to the dominance hierarchy. We are largely developed by it and benefit from it.

Waves within a pattern.

Every three years America steps into a new age of gun massacres. An hour long interview with the family and friends of the killer is the new norm. They play key roles in the American soap opera. It adds its drama to the story of our lives because it is the setting we raise our families in. The undercurrent of fear becomes a nationwide anxiety. How much of this perspective is the dominant ideology in itself?

The expansive negative peers back at us. Minds filled with apathetic possibility.

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Yours truly in a portrait for your viewing. Image created through soundification and bitcrushing.

Greetings All,

Before going any further…

Honor to the founders and denizens of Steem.

I am Andrew Schumacher. Minnesota resident who practices glitch art. I am a member of Glitch Artist Collaborative. One voice within an anarchistic movement dedicated to reinterpret aesthetics. We meditate on the qualia generated between the human and digital experience. We express ourselves both with and through technology. Each cathode tube is whispered into existing. Each pixel part of the gestalt.

We all are flickering pixels within the CRT of the Real.


Image sourced from Blade Runner 2019, Robin Wright's Lieutenant Joshi

Like many people, I have my faces and wear them when appropriate. I will focus on these three facets on my SteemIt page:

  • Glitch Art

  • Media Analysis

  • Transhumanism

The freedom over content creation that I see on this platform is beautiful. Let us immortalize those that have sacrificed for their crafts and have labored for this new Library of Alexandria.

This digital library functions as a forum for discourse as well, unfettered from corporate control. Our voices echo within its halls, fostering a new means for our society to process humanity's collective knowledge. We will cultivate this historic space and author it within this new blockchain library. This is an exciting experiment to bring us into the future of media!

Cue mundane image of myself to contrast this romantic rhetoric

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Net and money. A very intriguing post. I am interested to see what else you share! Welcome.

Thank you for having me! I appreciate the house-warming! :)

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Welcome to steemit ☺️ it's great to have you here here in this community..... enjoy the platform

Thank you kindly maryahoc! Best Well-Wishes to you :)

Damn, you're pretty much the coolest new member of steemit. Hey by the way, you've been nominated for your artistry by @zachnewell to win some SBD in my contest: https://steemit.com/art/@flaccidfervor/name-drop-showdown-sbd-giveaway. If you or anyone else would like to enter, just find a steemit artist you like, share with us their work, and you both might get to split the entire post payout 50/50! And if you don't win, it's still a good place to get yourself some exposure.

@flaccidfervor you are too kind. I am just finishing up sharing another artist. Thank you for your warm hospitality. :)

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This post was so spot on. Thank you, and welcome.

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