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A glitch is a rupture from existing rules
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
How did SoundCloud change the landscape of music?
faroutmagazine.co.uk
A cute read on the significance of Soundcloud
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Floppies “force their users to confront the transience of art and information”
CDs and nostalgia in fandom
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.
Anastasia Berg • On the Aesthetic Turn | The Point Magazine
Can we imagine what will come after the subscription economy? Will it just be a case of bundeling everything up again?
Trends = ineffeciencies