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“Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
This, too, is a form of algorithmic anxiety: the feeling that, when such a human endeavor as making culture is so automated, authenticity becomes impossible.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
This perception that culture is stuck and plagued by sameness is indeed due to the omnipresence of algorithmic feeds.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
But there’s more that goes into meditative television. It’s not the same as what The New Yorker dubbed “Ambient TV”; in fact, I find myself highly engaged. It’s so strange and joyful. I’ve found myself trying to look at the world the way he does, just watching tiny things happen and not putting too much thought into it.
GQ • In Praise of Meditative TV
The 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
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
If anything, mass culture lately appears more aesthetically homogenous than ever.