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Per Minna Ruckerstein via Rob Horning, the infrastructure of oppression (for instance, algorithms, but also, cars) is proffered and accepted as infrastructure of support or even comfort. We gaslight, and gas, ourselves. In re algorithms, we sell ourselves and give to billionaires.
#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten #infrastructure #algorithms #oppression #gaslighting
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Ruckerstein's book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520394551/the-feel-of-algorithms
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The Link to Rob Horning's essay: https://robhorning.substack.com/p/two-riders-were-approaching?
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Horning quote: The “end of social media,” for those who find it sad, as Kyle Chayka appears to in this New Yorker piece that complains that “the Internet isn’t fun anymore,” seems to mean the end of that fantasy that the internet allows us to find all the cool weird people doing cool weird things without making those people less cool and less weird in the process. But social media was always the process of extinguishing that kind of discovery by systematizing it. 1/2
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"There is no social media without influencers because they have only ever existed to create influencers, to offer the promise that there was some better user-generated content to consume than your friends’ texts. There is no such thing, as Rebecca Jennings details here, as “deinfluencing,” anymore than there is any such thing as anti-fashion. There are no anti-social-media social platforms, no viable anti-Instagrams." 2/2 #robhorning #algorithms #tworiders
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