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In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“Ghetto Tech was an acceleration of the already highly computerized sound, yet what made it distinct from techno were the colloquial prompts added in tandem with the sound, which became chants on the dance floor. If techno was the musical equivalent of product rolling off the assembly line, Ghetto Tech was the progeny of the assembly line: auto... See more
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Amazon and Spotify offer a raw deal for artists, Adam M. Lowenstein writes.
In their new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back,” the law professor Rebecca Giblin and the activist author Cory Doctorow portray creative markets such as... See more
instagram.com“My book Raving is anchored by a quote from Brown. I’m a white woman dancing to techno – I’m the uninvited guest in somebody else’s culture, which must be acknowledged. In Brown’s version, Black music got stolen by a global party culture. What are we doing when we’re dancing to a music that we didn’t make? In my book, I tried to centre the... See more
The Book That Inspired McKenzie Wark’s Intoxicating Memoir on Raving
There are two wolves inside of me. One believes that music should be de-commodified and that musicians’ labor and art should be paid for, the other believes that music should be freely accessible to all as a cultural commons. We all contain contradictions. I still use MP3s and a locally downloaded library to listen to music, and some music just... See more
PI.FYI SPOTLIGHT: @ROYALLMONARCH
When I say “I don’t know where everyone went,” I know everyone’s out there surfing the web , of course, but it feels like it’s a different place now. When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet. The “For You” pages of the world are right, I am interested in that content, but I’m not seeing... See more
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