how the algorithm keeps you under control
This problem is almost impossible to fix in a culture that relies heavily on algorithms. The algorithm is, by definition, a repeating pattern that always looks backward. It does something in the future based on what worked in the past.
So the algorithm that recommends music or videos on a web platform will never deliver a totally fresh and new expe... See more
So the algorithm that recommends music or videos on a web platform will never deliver a totally fresh and new expe... See more
Ted Gioia • How to Know if You're Living in a Doom Loop
It is only recently that the elaboration, the modeling of one’s personal and social identity, has been reorganized to conform to the uninterrupted operation of markets, information networks, and other systems.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
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
In that way, some consumers have yielded to a type of techno-fatalism. People know that algorithms exist and often dictate how culture is disseminated to them—and that there’s not much they can do about it, save for abandoning the platforms altogether and embracing a retro-Luddism about their consumption choices.
The Technology That Actually Runs Our World — The Atlantic
Dr. Cardona elaborates:
“We have built a civilization that distrusts spontaneous well-being. In its place, we offer
conditional worth: achievement through effort, pleasure through purchase,
enlightenment through productivity. The ecstatic is unearned, and thus feared.”
The result is a neurocultural paradox: a society addicted to stimulation, but allerg... See more
“We have built a civilization that distrusts spontaneous well-being. In its place, we offer
conditional worth: achievement through effort, pleasure through purchase,
enlightenment through productivity. The ecstatic is unearned, and thus feared.”
The result is a neurocultural paradox: a society addicted to stimulation, but allerg... See more
Homegrown Humans
The belief that human behaviour can be perfectly modelled, predicted and controlled entrains as a consequence the collapse of equitable relations between individuals and trust in institutions, and the substitution of algorithmic certainty for any semblance of participatory, democratic society. There is no appeal to collective, contestable decision-
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