IYKYK: When Novels Speak a Language Only Part of the Internet Gets | The Walrus
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IYKYK: When Novels Speak a Language Only Part of the Internet Gets | The Walrus
The true influence of Post Internet People on general internet socialization was both more subtle and more important than simply a shiny new social networking site. By joining the social internet after their parents were already there, they faced an especially dire version of “context collapse.” This is danah boyd’s term for when people from all yo
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The internet was dramatically increasing our ability to know about things, while our ability to change things stayed the same, or possibly shrank right in front of us. I had started to feel that the internet would only ever induce this cycle of heartbreak and hardening—a hyper-engagement that would make less sense every day
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
So that’s how my life (and possibly yours) turned out in the future—hooked up to a Soma machine for ten hours a day as the rest of the Internet is increasingly corporatized, consolidated, homogenized, or lobotomized.
Steven Hyden • This Isn't Happening
It has blurred the distinctions between categories of information—distinctions of form, register, sense, and importance—that the epistemic architecture of the analog era preserved and even accentuated. Content has collapsed, as our adoption of the drab, generic term content to refer to all forms of expression testifies. Everything now has to fit th
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Eichhorn uses the potent term “content capital”—a riff on Pierre Bourdieu’s “cultural capital”—to describe the way in which a fluency in posting online can determine the success, or even the existence, of an artist’s work.
“Cultural producers who, in the past, may have focused on writing books or producing films or making art must now also spend con... See more
“Cultural producers who, in the past, may have focused on writing books or producing films or making art must now also spend con... See more