the platformization of culture and creativity makes it harder to imagine another way forward. The past plummets down a memory hole and the future is reduced to what a prediction market or recommendation algorithm anticipates. The present, meanwhile, becomes a fragmented slop bowl of takes and sensations that lead nowhere. We live in slop capitalism... See more
In recent years, an underlying sense has emerged that algorithmic culture is shallow, cheap, and degraded in the washed-out manner of a photocopy copied many times over.