Slop

I have a channel on Are.na called slop. It doesn't have a theme. I just put everything I like in there. Box of rocks? Slop. Design-bait Reebok ad? Slop. A drawing of a tiny frog playing a keyboard? Slop.

There isn't a "slop 2" because there doesn't need to be. Everything can be accomplished through the internal tension of the first "slop." There isn't any theme except what I vibe with, which means, ironically, it is heavily curated. I like the idea of slop. So much of stuff on the internet is slop. I like a space to sit and rearrange all that garbage, and through that rearrangement create interesting resonances.¹ A short film about the manufacture of sex toys is like the interior of a 1983 Honda, in many ways.

But that Are.na channel is built around consumption. This space (wildflower.work) is meant for the production of slop.

Slop is different than ✨ Content ✨ because slop moves beneath the realm of capitalist production. Content is built around engagement, growth, monetization, specialization, etc. Slop is the re-appropriation of Content. Ad design is good not because they are ads, but because it's design. That element of design only truly appears when it's next to a GIF of objects floating down a stream or photo of a knotted orange rope. This parallel circulation of images creates new possibilities within the thin spaces of a system like capitalism, for example.²

>>>> This is meant to be a machine that converts content into slop; a relay between various disconnected things. <<<<

Here are some things I want to do here:

• Publish some digital projects I have been working on
• Publish WIP papers and other fragments
• 🤷 just vibe probably
• Dump everything into a single RSS feed as a joke, as a jape

Things I want to resist doing:

• Anything that could be profitable, drive engagement, etc.
• Producing ✨ Content ✨
• Publishing things that are bad. Unfinished is different from bad.

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