Beyond the Feed

When everything turns into television, every form of communication starts to adopt television’s values: immediacy, emotion, spectacle, brevity.

The platform’s allure is the infinitude promised by its algorithm. It is the flow, not the content, that is primary.

When I say “everything is turning into television,” what I mean is that disparate forms of media and entertainment are converging on one thing: the continuous flow of episodic video.

we need semipermeable membranes

discussions work better when you can pick and choose who you’re talking to.