to the vector belong the spoils
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to the vector belong the spoils
Under modernity, each person must be a piece in a jigsaw puzzle: completely unique but predictably so—a piece that is different from all those around it but still able to fit into a larger picture. We have more artifacts, both material and digital, than ever with which to enact our identities, yet we can never seem capable of staying unique for
... See moreDavid A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
We all know the vibes...the body is surveilled, optimised, deepfaked, hyper-embodied and dis-embodied; not post-human exactly but at the very least, networked. As author Vauhini Vara, explains in Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age , “Our subtle self-modification according to technological capitalism’s norms is so pervasive that certain types of... See more
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... See moreShould the human fashion editor tell you what to like or should it be the algorithmic machine, in the form of the Amazon bookstore, Spotify feed, or Netflix home page? That is the central dilemma of culture in Filterworld.
The former option is mercurial and driven by elite gatekeepers, a powerful group built up over a century of modern cultural