The rise of AI-generated “slop” content and its parallels in processed food. What fills but fails to nourish. A critique of the industrialization of digital media, where scale replaces creation and erodes creativity, taste, and cultural soul.
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Aestheticization of politics is to 1930s :: Aestheticization of techno-capital is to 2020s Julie Fredrickson Does anyone have a Walter Benjamin AI agent I can borrow? I’m working on the above analogy as I believe we may be seeing a similar form of reactionary populism with techno-capital finding itself at the center of a similar […]
In the beginning there was the word? I dunno, seems more likely it was the image and then the Levantine religions got around to giving God the word. And thank God too as internet culture couldn’t exist without binary stuff. But lately it seems like we’ve decided to go all in on horizontal thinking. Now […]
I don’t know if I should be flattered or irritated but I learned funniest thing this week. Netflix “stole” my Real Fake Fendi story for their hit show Emily in Paris. Let me explain. Emily in Paris wrote a plot-line into the current 5th season which appears to be riffing on one of my old […]
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Day 1828 and Collective Warmth
I feel lucky to have acquired an education that taught enough of totalitarian history that I feel I can paraphrase Walter Benjamin. I’d used to say well we all know “fascism is the aestheticization of politics” because academics helped me to be skeptical about theory and Marxism. Benjamin saw the logical result of fascism is […]
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Day 961 and Repeating 2003
Greetings, citizensWe are livingIn the ageIn which the pursuit of all valuesOther thanMoney success fame glamourHas either been discreditedOr destroyedMoney success fame glamourFor we are living in the age of the thing Felix da Housecat for the 2003 film “Party Animal” I wasn’t a club kid in the Iraq War era. I had not yet […]