🎄✨The Nexialist #0152 - flashback 2023 - pt.i

thank you! | my favorite nexialists of the year | content that stayed with me | paradoxes | culture, tech and futures | ai | reports

Dec 21, 2023

welcome to your weekly artisanal digital zine, the nexialist

hey, you! i hope this message finds you jolly. this (and the next) edition will follow the nexialist tradition: meta-editions selecting some of the best content i shared here during the year. it’s not an easy task, but it’s always impressive and satisfying to see how much content goes through this feed (and our heads) in a year. it’s a lot of content, so if you’re bored to read the whole list, read the intro and skim through. maybe something causes a brainspark?

now, this year i had quite a few first times: it was the first (and second) podcast that i participated in (newsletter economy and o analista), first time i rode a scooter (in rome and lyon —ty, juan!), my first professional massage (ty, andrea!), the first time i visited the iguaçu falls (ty, mom and dad!), the first time i saw beyoncé live (and second that i saw madonna). these things keep me in check: the best things in life are offline and with the people i love, and it makes me put more effort into getting out of the screen. i can only say i’ve been so privileged in this year of turmoil. it has been a stable year for work (thank you, envisioning!), which as a freelancer is a blessing. also, this year i’m learning how to own my wants and desires which is helping me enormously (ty, therapy and adrienne maree brown’s pleasure activism).

so thank you for sticking around, reading, sharing and interacting. and a big thank you for the paid subscribers (and occasional contributors), it is definitely a nice incentive to have your support. if you’re not on a break, tune in next week for the following topics: gender, masculinity and sexuality | language | music | amazonize the world | dutch | weird stuff

otherwise, see you next year, nexialindas!

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🧠✨ my favorite nexialists of the year

🫀content that stayed with me

articles, videos or terms that changed the way i see the world, taught me something new that reframed the way i perceive reality.

interstitium (tn#151)
enshittification lifecycle (tn#106)
the age of average (tn#115)
90s bands alignment chart (tn#142)
the other vibe shift: turning against the wealthy (tn#102)
digital esoterism (tn#116)
reworking, referencing, releasing (tn#125)
personal machines and portable worlds (tn#132)
“what about me” effect (tn#140)
getting over rejection (tn#146)
sloshing time (tn#151)
the cult of ugly aesthetics (tn#134)
more-than-human rights (tn#131)
curb-cut effect (tn#131)
past lives & in-yun (tn#136)
vernacular architecture (tn#125)
an apocalyptic meditation on doomscrolling (tn#145)
dangerous beauty (tn#142)

🪢paradoxes

more and more i realize how the world (and ourselves) are made of paradoxes and tensions. this year the idea that things can be linear opposites or closely related (tn#126) made my brain explode.

hedgehog vs fox approach (tn#130)
barbie’s authentic artificiality (tn#130)
first-rate intelligence (tn#117)
how individualism undermines systemic change (tn#141)
the beauty of degraded media (tn#147)
lana’s beauty in sadness (tn#124)
rurbanization (tn#114)
the biophillia paradox (tn#122)
solipsism v nondualism (tn#113)
eudaimonic vs hedonic (tn#123)
art, not pornography (tn#114)

📡culture, tech and futures

this is where my work intersect, so also where my content consumption gravitates toward. below some articles, resources and terms that brought me important realizations and brainsparks this year.

foresight resources (tn#135)
aperture for transformative foresight (tn#143)
digital feudalism (tn#136) / technofeudalism (tn#143)
mechanomorphism (tn#118)
revival as loss of identity + mass man (tn#103)
plantations, computers and industrial control (tn#125)
evolutionary quimera (tn#121)
technologies of convenience (tn#122)
fracking eyeballs (tn#150)
second brain (tn#132)
the hidden networks of everything (tn#126)
cypherpunk, solarpunk and lunarpunk (tn#127)
crossing the chasm (tn#107)
futures garden (tn#107)
deinfluencers (tn#111)
hawthorn effect (tn#116)
therapy speaking (tn#116)
the MAYA principle (tn#107)

🤖ai

it is the year of artificial intelligence, and while doing this nexialist review it is shocking how fast it has invaded our lives, especially with apps like chatgpt. below is some content that helped me navigate this big change.

centaur mindset (tn#106)
ai: hype or the real deal? (tn#149)
ai’s ethical compass (tn#114)
low tech zones (tn#135)
hyperindustry of the artificial imaginary (tn#118)
ai homework (tn#151)
a blurry jpeg of the web (tn#111)
web summit takeaways (tn#149)
everything is a remix pt 4 (tn#112)
the stupidity of ai (tn#113)
the age of artificial creativity (tn#113)
pope in a puffer coat (tn#114)
ARTificial (tn#123)
ai pin (tn#147)
gag city (tn#151)

📈reports

some reports that brought different formats, subjects and findings.

2024 trend reports (tn#151)
META trending trends: 2023 (tn#106)
a more play-full future (tn#121)
never niche enough (tn#105)
decoding community (tn#121)
future creatives report (tn#147)
bodega worker predictions (tn#105)
META trending trends: 2023 (tn#106)
the age of re-enchantment (tn#123)
tech trends (tn#106)
a future in sync (tn#121)
pornhub’s year in review (tn#108)
2023 big ideas (tn#108)
future today (tn#112)
the lazy report (tn#117)
visual economy (tn#121)
dirty words: community (tn#129)
the irregular report: work (tn#133)

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