Sublime

Benjamin wrote that collectors have a “feeling of responsibility” to their collections. But it’s very difficult to feel such ownership for what we collect on the Internet; we can’t be stewards of the culture we appreciate in the same way as Benjamin. We don’t actually own it and can’t guarantee accessing it in the same way each time.

But the more automated an algorithmic feed is, the more passive it makes us as consumers, and the less need we feel to build a collection, to preserve what matters to us. We give up the responsibility of collecting. Over the past two decades, the collecting of culture—whether films on DVD, albums on vinyl, or books on a shelf—has shifted from being

Welcome to AirSpace”

To your question about what people starting out can do, I think there has been a crisis in criticism. I mean that in the most expansive way—not just hardcore criticism, but consideration of art. Think about the first album from some little band down the street from me. Who will write a review of that on the internet? No one. It was always hard to

as technological ones, at an inhuman scale and speed.

human tastemakers,