the "algorithmic gaze" affects everything you see online
Algorithmic anxiety happens because there is a dramatically asymmetrical relationship between user and algorithm. For the individual user, trying to predict or dictate the outcome of the algorithm is like trying to control the tide. To continue the metaphor, all users can do is surf the wave that’s already formed.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Why are we seeing a global homogenizing of culture across every dimension that counts? Why has Hollywood become so creatively bankrupt that nobody bothers watching that oh-so-predictable-52nd sequel to a superhero movie? Why have pop songs become so objectively similar? Why is everyone following the same formula for their posts on Instagram and hum... See more
invencion.com • Culture & the Algorithm.
As the soft circles of memory open and close, we regain time. The chaos melds back together with choices, yielding a sovereign, unpredictable self. The machines corral us in harder pens: race, sex, income, residence. They define us by our most probable states, by what we do online or under surveillance, not by what we do on the mountaintops or unde
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