The book 1.0
A few years ago, a user by the name of IlluminatiPirate published Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake on the online forum Agora Road’s Macintosh Cafe.1 The theory proposes that the majority of the content with which we engage online is algorithmically generated by bots, all in an effort to control what we believe. I feel obligated to... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Making the Internet Alive Again
Not a day passes that I’m not reminded of these words from Ric Sluiter, art director of LILO & STITCH. https://t.co/illJ76a41j https://t.co/7jGUzcdLUa
Beware the Curators: Why Life Beyond Algorithmic Recommendations Requires Skepticism | Future Commerce Insiders
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way of reaching understandings of what is going on , i.e. the foundations of world models and cultures in general.
Everyone’s Existential Crisis
The co-opting of “community” into a sales strategy is insidious, not only because it reduces likeminded groups of people to consumer demographics, but because, in an era when we’re all encouraged to cultivate our own “personal brands,” it also reduces each of us to a salesperson , seeking out likeminded people in order to sell them things , whether... See more
You are not a commercial for yourself
If immersive media prefigured the rise of the neoliberal world order, network media prefigured its collapse.
Neural Interpellation
We are not undergoing a crisis of culture but rather a crisis of epistemology.
Everyone’s Existential Crisis
Whoever controls infrastructure determines the future. If you doubt that, consider that in Europe we’re still using roads and living in towns and cities the Roman Empire mapped out 2,000 years ago.