We're fast approaching a point where the real has to (really it needs to) assert itself over the commodification of all our social and cultural planes of being by digital platforms. The novelty of social media platforms as well is evaporating quickly if not evaporated entirely by this point, and I suppose we'll see a return of the homebrew HTML website in full force soon. But Pssst, on the dl: while venture capitalists and neoliberals are focused on the kaleidescope of these digital spaces, maybe we could build up some new real world structures now that they've properly stripped the old "real" for parts in favor of the now-dead dream of web 2.0...
10000% think the internet is a huge reason for why culture seems so .... dead & shallow. hyper aware of the fact that one day the internet could just implode & never be accessed again and like...then what
Fully agree that the culture feels so dead and shallow but these past couple months I have increasingly wondered whether or not the internet itself is the root cause and not the billion dollar tech monopolies that are blanketing over the transformative possibilities of a free web
We're fast approaching a point where the real has to (really it needs to) assert itself over the commodification of all our social and cultural planes of being by digital platforms. The novelty of social media platforms as well is evaporating quickly if not evaporated entirely by this point, and I suppose we'll see a return of the homebrew HTML website in full force soon. But Pssst, on the dl: while venture capitalists and neoliberals are focused on the kaleidescope of these digital spaces, maybe we could build up some new real world structures now that they've properly stripped the old "real" for parts in favor of the now-dead dream of web 2.0...
10000% think the internet is a huge reason for why culture seems so .... dead & shallow. hyper aware of the fact that one day the internet could just implode & never be accessed again and like...then what
Fully agree that the culture feels so dead and shallow but these past couple months I have increasingly wondered whether or not the internet itself is the root cause and not the billion dollar tech monopolies that are blanketing over the transformative possibilities of a free web