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"The Airbnb-ification of the arts." How social media algorithms are gently nudging the art world towards sterility, comfort, and predictability (www.staygrounded.online)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by JustinHanagan@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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This is an essay I wrote in 2022, inspired by Kyle Chaka's 2016 viral essay, "Welcome to Airspace". After seeing an excerpt from Kyle's new book on the front of /c/Technology, I thought y'all might be interested in reading this piece of mine, which is less about the design of physical spaces, and more about The Algorithm™'s influence on creative practice in general.

This is a conversation I can have a million times, so I hope you enjoy.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

TL;DR: Adorno really hated Jazz.

😜

EDIT: More seriously, Debord and Society of the Spectacle come to mind as well.

[–] theluddite@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Yes absolutely! Debord comes up a lot on my blog too. I fucking love the Situationists. A lot of these theorists that lived through the earlier days of mass media saw it with such clarity for exactly what it is in a way that those of us born later I think would struggle to see were it not for their writing, not that we bothered to heed their warnings.