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Even a partial refusal of the intensively marketed offerings of multinational corporations is construed as opposition to technology itself.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Thomas Hirschhorn
Nell Irvin Painter • Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
they (particularly the young) wondered if the system was corrupt, if the mass society and its consumptive drive wasn’t a kind of fascist dictator and the public duped to give it the duty it called for. Particularly, the segment of young people now roaming university campuses began to wonder if conformity was actually just another word for manipulat
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
This instability only intensifies the cultural flattening going on, since users can’t store or revisit their past experiences within their original context.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The Parisian dealer Emmanuel Perrotin was thrown out of the fair because he gave exhibitors’ passes to art consultant Philippe Ségalot and Christie’s owner François Pinault. As a compensatory gesture toward Perrotin’s loss of face and income, Ségalot admitted to paying him $300,000.
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
The Anti-Design Effort
Löwy Juval • Righting Software
Micaela Baranello • Turn The Machine Inward
Rather than a smooth space that flows,6 digital virtuality amplifies the inconstant stutter of desire.