Media
Everything media related, from writing to TV
Maarten and
Media
How social media’s fading archives are erasing our digital history
Joan Westenbergjoanwestenberg.medium.comA call to reconsider responsibility and value
Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification (30 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net
A great breakdown of enshittification and the cures to this horrible disease
For anyone who likes to think about music instead of just playing it in the background - read this
Cultural fracking
A glitch is a rupture from existing rules
CDs and nostalgia in fandom
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Floppies “force their users to confront the transience of art and information”
For all its good intentions, art that tries to minister to its audience by showcasing moral aspirants and paragons or the abject victims of political oppression produces smug, tiresome works that are failures both as art and as agitprop. Artists and critics—their laurel bearers—should take heed.