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Lives lived on networks are persistently dissected into atomized showers of bits and bytes, a uniform downpour of discrete elements which are then recursively reunited within the computed circulation of life’s dissolution. In the insulated online comforts of streaming cultural events, personalized platform feeds, and algorithmically curated marketplaces, network communities fleetingly soothe yet inevitably deepen the isolation of their respective nodes, *communicatively anesthetizing a misery which blossoms everywhere digitally*.
The Pixelation of the Society of the Spectacle
Ian Alan Paul
It is grim to think that reading, an activity which was once understood to be a key to human self-liberation, is being transformed into a tool for circumscribing our humanity, and imprisoning minds on a mass scale.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
What if, however, most people didn’t aspire to make content, to be content, to pursue fame, to subordinate friendship to commercial practice? The rise of social media was largely an effort to normalize the choices of “prosuming” and ultimately living life as content, which may have enriched the platforms and a handful of individual users but further imposed its terms, its anxieties and competitive pressures, on the billions of the rest of us.
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
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