THE BIG FLAT NOW: Power, Flatness, and Nowness in the Third Millennium
Maniac fun is gone — originality, unprecedentedness, creativity and surprise disappears when so much weighs on culture’s ability to spread through digital feeds
Despite the archival riches and the decentralized architecture, the net’s emphasis on the light-speed transmission of data for commercial gain, combined with our all-too-human hunger for diversion and distraction, has given rise to information empires of unprecedented scope. Our new emperors give us all the information we can consume but starve us ... See more