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This frictionless machine only dispenses art as a ghost, a form that–like all exchange value–is magical and mysterious but should not be confused with aura, simply because there is no such thing as an authentic digital copy. It is not the ghost in the vending machine either. It is the ghost of property, a fictitious experience of ownership glancing back at us through our screens. Capitalised aura, perhaps.
The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are)
paletten.net
There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
The colloquial connotation of immediacy as “urgency” underlines the temporal dimension of this style, a hurry-hurry that compresses time into a tingling present.9 Spatially, immediacy encloses while delivering everything close: the world at your fingertips; “Let’s go places.” The flexible psychology surfing these urgencies and proximities is self-possessed and transparent: “Speak your truth!” “Live your best life!” “You do you!”—the auto-actualization of human capital.
Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism
Anna Kornbluh
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