The Downward Spiral: Popular Things
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The Downward Spiral: Popular Things
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
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
I didn't get to witness the Renaissance or the Enlightenment. I grew up in a room, in front of a computer, fantasizing about the combination of art and technology. My generation doesn't produce pieces with the power to symbolize wars or revolutions, like 'Guernica' or 'Liberty Leading the People', because I am - or rather, we are - the byproduct of... See more
