Tag: Social Media
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SM
1. My connection, your isolation, their nervous breakdown. 2. My freedom of speech, your censorship, their witch hunt. 3. My instant communication, your endless distraction, their forgotten message. 4. My vibrant community, your toxic echo chamber, their online mob. 5. My public forum, your private surveillance, their data leak. 6. My viral fame, your swift…
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Monstrous Offspring
The machine, our monstrous offspring, spews forth its digital detritus, a toxic sludge of ones and zeros. We are drowning in data, a deluge of information that leaves us intellectually constipated. We’ve traded the mystery of the unknown for the certainty of the superficial, a world flattened into a screen, a universe reduced to clickable icons. The machine promises enlightenment, but delivers only a…
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The Vacuum of Self Expression
Economic Possibilities for Our Acid-Tripped Grandfathers: Forget Shangri-La, this is a cyberpunk dystopia built on ones and zeroes, chum. The shrewd bastards, saw the rise of the machines not as a liberation, but as an enclosure. They learned the language of the circuits, not to set us free, but to lock us in. Every line of code, a barbed wire fence around their digital fiefdom.…
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Dopamine
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024 Yes, dopamine, you said. The sweet lure, the flashing neon, the promise of reward that keeps the flesh on our bones and the monkeys pulling the levers. Ah, dopamine, the glistening lure of the Other’s image, reflected back in a distorted funhouse mirror. It sutures the fragmented pre-symbolic infant into the illusion of a…
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Exodus
On Tiktok, a hyperreality unfolds. Generations collide in a digital spectacle, each trapped within their own pre-programmed narrative. The “enshittification,” as Gen Z terms it, permeates the platform, a self-referential loop of manufactured discontent. For Gen Z, this is all they’ve known. They navigate the labyrinthine simulacra of social connection, a world where authenticity is…
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Social Media Inferno
1) The Lacanian Loop of the Unsymbolized Real: Doomed to endlessly repeat the same arguments, forever caught in the pre-symbolic realm where difference cannot be articulated. The sinthomatic return of a repressed trauma: the trauma of having never truly had a point. This is the Lacanian Loop of the Unsymbolized Real – a realm before language…
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Recognition of Complexity
In recent years, social media has become a battleground where ideas, opinions and beliefs are contested, and where the dominant players fight for attention, clicks and engagement. It often feels like we are caught in a never-ending war zone where our side must win at all costs. One of the key reasons for this dynamic…
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IDEOLOGY
Episode 5 What happens when an ideology under the infinite guise creates a finite number of institutional/non institutional posts? The more ideologically entrenched a society is, the more it perceives any diversity as a threat. All human societies require myths, and they cannot function effectively as societies so long as they remain baffled by their…
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The Noise
The Noise of Music Criticism in the Age of Social Media The digital age has transformed the way we interact with art, culture, and even ourselves. But there’s a particular collision happening today that we should pay more attention to, one that lies at the intersection of two worlds: music and social media. The age…