As Pajkovic wrote, “Feedback loops reinforce a user’s pre-existing preferences, diminishing their exposure to a diverse range of cultural offerings and denying art, aesthetics and culture of its confrontational societal role.” That lack of confrontation is concerning. It’s not that great art needs to be inherently offensive; rather, when everything

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Culture is an ecosystem.

Each component from climate, biology, and institutions, to technology, policy and leisure, are all reacting to and informing the next.

For every push, there’s a pull, and for every action, a reaction. And more often than not, contradictions or polar opposites in culture are related to one another.

That we’re currently experie... See more

The tyranny of the contextualizer online is their constant and immovable presence between the reader and the text, the listener and the music, the viewer and the film. We now reach for context before engaging with the content. When my first interaction with a song is through TikTok reactions, I no longer encounter the work as it is, on my own. It c... See more