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In context, these artists (like the psychedelic hippies of yore) were being literally countercultural—using culture against itself to violate the hegemonic push toward, in Allin’s and Rice’s case, neoliberal “responsibilization.”
documentjournal.com • The Internet Didn’t Kill Counterculture—you Just Won’t Find It on Instagram
need to write a thinkpiece about this genre of video where a young upwardly mobile email boy in a highrise goes about his isolated daily routine (part of his bourgeois “hustle”). my first thought is that the whole style is derived from the american psycho opening sequence https://t.co/wMmj7L5fZf
The interesting is a moving target, tracking along with the difference between norms and anomalies.
McKenzie Wark • Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-First Century
algorithmic anxiety,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
gillian wu (@gillianrwu)
threads.net
up posts and figuring out the latest twists of the algorithm—which hashtags, memes, or formats need to be followed.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
In the post-hipster era, you listened to what Spotify told you to listen to. If you read a book, it was because the precise pattern of blobby pastel-coloured shapes on its cover contained coded instructions to TikTok’s algorithm that sent it zooming to the top of your feed. Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline machin... See more