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Can We Resist the Age of the Algorithm?
Homogenization is beginning to alienate consumers rather than entertain them, and the entity to blame is “the algorithm.”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The Zeitgeist Is Changing. A Strange, Romantic Backlash to the Tech Era Looms
Ross Barkantheguardian.com
The outcome of such algorithmic gatekeeping is the pervasive flattening that has been happening across culture. By fatness I mean homogenization but also a reduction into simplicity: the least ambiguous, least disruptive, and perhaps least meaningful pieces of culture are promoted the most.
Flatness is the lowest common denominator, an averageness t
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