Sublime

The reduction of reality to information and humans to genotypes all-too-conveniently dovetails with capitalism’s imperative to render everything into a suitable form for the marketplace. Everything is data, and everything has a price, and everything can scale.

In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers.

describing how algorithmic recommendations and other digital communication routes can silo Internet users into encountering only…

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Because there’s an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.

why on earth would we believe that a colonizing impulse would magically lead to universal prosperity this time around?

Professor Yochai Benkler, Harvard University, author of The Wealth of Networks

thinking about alterity and difference that has become a useful critical tool for feminist, antiracist, and other political work.

In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers.