A 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.
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A 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.
... See moreCulture has to follow the dominant modes of perception of a given era. While a twentieth-century building might have been designed to be photographed, the twenty-first century work of art is “designed for reproducibility” through algorithmic feeds…They each contribute and conform to a generic, flattened, reproducible aesthetic. Hence the general st
Content creation has been gentrified.
There's no soul in what was once an artistic expression, a way of sharing new ideas.
Content is now a rehashing of those same ideas at scale without any&
... See moreThe playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar described our “click-bait consciousness,” trained to interact with anything in the feed designed to be triggering. “The worship of algorithms is mutilating creative industries,” the television writer Cord Jefferson complained. “Culture is no longer made. It is simply curated from existing culture, refined, an
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