Review: Kyle Chayka's Filterworld

This, too, is a form of algorithmic anxiety: the feeling that, when such a human endeavor as making culture is so automated, authenticity becomes impossible.

hollowed-out meaning of taste in the Filterworld era has something in common with the way engagement is measured by digital platforms: it’s…

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Though it was particularly identifiable in cafés, the same sensibility could be found in coworking spaces, start-up offices, hotels, and restaurants—all spaces where time was temporarily spent and aesthetic was flaunted, where physical space was turned into a product.