Mimetic Hauntology
The Homo technologicus it produced mirrors the Homo economicus of modern economics, valuing rationality and consistency, discouraging flexibility, fluidity and chance. Today’s personalised tech systems, once the tools of mavericks, are more likely to narrow our opportunities for creativity than expand them.
There’s something tragic about taking a system that ONCE might’ve caused a breakthrough, but then grew stale. Though the act of sharing it and meme-ing, it can go viral, but through going viral, it lodges itself in everyone’s heads and can’t be updated. It’s stunted and holds no future utility, for the creator or the users. It’s almost like a basta
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Some of the sources of Pop Art VI, Peter Blake
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Capitalism, it seems, can’t let go of the past. Like a necromancer, it reanimates the corpses of bygone trends, ideologies, and aesthetics, then sells them back to us at a markup. This “capit... See more
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