design is so unimportant in the grand scheme of things and I’m sick of seeing people kid themselves into thinking their contributions as a designer are some form of visual activism. Also your sense of value isn’t bound to your contributions ”from a design perspective.”

Electronic music had been synonymous with a sense of the future, but by '05 it wasn't capable of evoking a future that felt strange or dissonant. It was ‘‘futuristic" only in the same sense that fonts are ‘‘gothic’’—the futuristic now connoted a settled set of concepts & affects.

Found this on my alma mater's meme page.

In this text I condensed my reflections on a few years of involvement in (graphic) design and design education. I hope you find it useful somehow. networkcultures.org/entreprecariat…