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To feed its playlists, Spotify began commissioning “perfect fit content” (PFC) music that matched those playlists but was cheaper for Spotify. “By 2023, according to a review of charts and messages shared on the company Slack, over 100 official playlists were made almost entirely of PFC,” Pelly writes. From there, the even lower-rent option of AI-generated music started looking good.
What Spotify took from us by giving us everything - The Verge
Elizabeth Lopatto
What is loved is the petit objet a, which is not a particular object, but the object as such, the “void presupposed by a demand”. The physical and psychical “presence” of the lover is required only as that which allows the assemblage of affects to be given an apparent cohering centre. But, in the end, the lover is just that: the space, the canvas, on which the collage of memories and associations can be arranged.
We recognize that we are arriving on an already bloodied scene. But the cybernetic hope of an escape from capital was always a lie.
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