Silvio Lorusso

Is AI useful or not? To answer that, you shouldn't imagine a fully focused and energized version of yourself making use of it. Rather, picture yourself swamped, tired, and in a rush. That's how you'll get an honest answer.

how your email finds me

An American Psycho-inspired business card will be attached to the cover of the Korean edition of Entreprecariat But what does Patrick Bateman has to do with precarious entrepreneurialism? I wrote a short text to explain why the choice is fitting. networkcultures.org/entreprecari...

BREAKING: Goodreads just unveiled its new logo. I can't really see the magnifying glass tbh

#design

If cuneiform spreadsheets are your jam, if you are a Nanni or Ea-Nasir simp, if you've ever forged a signature to skip school, then you can't miss Chris Lee's Designing History book. Here's my foreword, titled "The Discreet Charm of a Short-Term Rental Agreement": silviolorusso.com/publication/...

As a design educator and a gamer, I think of this a lot.

Learning from Art Spaces

Other Worlds was launched in July 2021. Over the past four years, we've published twenty issues. This retrospective (link in bio) celebrates the richness and diversity of the contributions, and offers new subscribers a chance to discover articles they may have missed. buttondown.com/otherworlds/...

thanks! will check!

I wrote a short article on the "sketchy realism" of AI images, that is, the operational mismatch where, due to their photorealism, images meant as sketches or rough prototypes are intuitively perceived as finished products.

silviolorusso.com/publication/...

cc @gua-le-ni.com

showing my portfolio to a stranger

Some quick notes on The Brutalist: networkcultures.org/entreprecari...

Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias

YouTube video by Crimes New Roman The New, High-Tech Objectification of Women

Sharing this mindblowing video. It’s incredibly well done, so much work.
youtu.be/nGmYG3xEJ-4?...
(via @silviolorusso.bsky.social IG)

Thank you Lauren!

Feeling less insane with every page, thanks @silviolorusso.bsky.social

TikTok video by Geova Lima

ando navegando conteúdos sobre CLT no Tiktok, e realmente, é fascinante como o discurso do autônomo/pj e afins hoje ocupa o mesmíssimo espaço da gramática política dos movimentos socialistas do século XIX.

este vídeo em especial, e os comentários, achei muito sintético:

My fav part of Google I/O is passive-aggressive Gemini youtube.com/clip/UgkxlEV...

Photo of Silvio Lorusso’s book ‘Essays on Design and Disillusion’ sitting on my coffee table

Hey @silviolorusso.bsky.social - look what just showed up

Fierce red!

I loled :)

Went on Ebay and got a mysterious flyer showing a free interpretation (in Italian!) of Victor Papanek's pseudo-conspiratorial diagrams, replete with pencil notes.

The flyer is now accessible on both here: archive.org/details/cosi... and here: peoplesgdarchive.org/item/18933/c...

#design

you just did now :)

Everyone in the office is celebrating the anniversary of “work hard and be nice to people” poster and I just can’t…

If you have read “What design can’t do” by @silviolorusso.bsky.social you know why. If you haven’t, then you should. silviolorusso.com/work/what-de...

I dedicated several words to to that poster in Entreprecariat! Plus: the best spotted bootleg (by a friend, of course)

there is something videogame-ish about this