Soon after I first posted this essay in a blog some 15 years ago, a young man approached me to ask if I minded him reposting it. I asked him where that would be. He and some others had launched a site called āGenerationā. Its aim was to prepare for the coming war between the generations by assembling useful documents and providing a forum for... See more
A key shift in consciousness is when one learns to break frames. This does not mean to discard them, but rather to recognize that every frame is in need of constant updating. In order to allow the updating of any frame, we must remove any sense of identity from that frame.
Eichhorn uses the potent term ācontent capitalāāa riff on Pierre Bourdieuās ācultural capitalāāto describe the way in which a fluency in posting online can determine the success, or even the existence, of an artistās work.
āCultural producers who, in the past, may have focused on writing books or producing films or making art must now also spend... See more
To be platform-pilled means that oneās conception of truth is the version that best serves the platforms' goals.1 What we think of as popular, trustworthy, engaging, or even virtuous is filtered through the platforms' logic.