Cultural Dopes
“when the tech companies and billionaires who have spent their lives looking down their noses at anything that does not make them money [because when your interior world is cold and hollow, the only value system you can reach for revolves around capital] suddenly start endorsing a supposed ‘tool’ that would make our lives easier, your first feeling
... 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,
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
