the financialisation of everything / social capital becomes economic capital / you become the company / monetising everything you are and everything you have
he’s also like a thought experiment: what if all you cared about was content? What if you didn’t give a fuck about anything or anyone, totally disregarded the future, and just “maxxed”? How far could you go? I am, perhaps to an unproductive degree, darkly fascinated to see how far he can go because the distance he travels will be an exact... See more
Clavicular is a performance artist. His body is a canvas and the medley of drugs and mutilations he does are the paint. The picture he’s creating is one of the modern man under algorithmic ideology: a creature surrounded by suffering on all sides, who feels so out of control of his life that he seeks to inflict suffering upon himself as a... See more
Each man is a kind of martyr. They inflict suffering on themselves to prove devotion to something immaterial. Like the mystic self-flagellating, or the stigmatic continually reopening the wounds on their hands so they remain gory for the faithful to see, Clavicular and Fuentes turn their lives, their bodies, into material proof of an abstract... See more
Or what about AI companies that support new forms of monetizable work? Anything is a text-to-app builder that just announced its Series A this week. According to the founders, Anything already supports some interesting work:
A financial analyst has made $34K selling AI tools
A Hollywood producer made a children’s AI learning mobile app. Submitted it