capitalism

As J. P. Hillobserved earlier this year, “Social media platforms originally fostered some degree of connection between people, now every social media company primarily functions as a content distrubtion platform...we’re meant to passively absor monetizable content, and ideally buy something...most of us are meant to sit, scroll, and watch.”

Like the fiction in The New Yorker , Song presents the domestic plight of a petit-bourgeoise woman, with incidental detail and dramatic ironies which hint at some statement on the nature of society which is never resolved. Lucy broke up with John because he couldn’t afford city parking, she likes Harry because his money makes her feel valuable, she... See more

So much of my life, so much of myself—my art, my work—relies on my constant connection to the digital world. To completely remove myself from it seems impossible, futile. My FOMO would perhaps kill me before my lack of income did. Is it even possible to remove myself from the algorithm, or is my being so deeply intertwined in it that deleting my on... See more