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When the playing field is leveled such that the only content is what people are able to produce themselves, the major advantages that celebrities have disappear: access to professional production resources and distribution through traditional gatekeepers. The remaining differentiators are entertainment value and fun.
Li Jin • Zoom Bachelorette, Minimum Viable Shows, and the nature of celebrity in quarantine
With information effortlessly transferable at zero marginal cost and social platforms that blast content to the top of everyone’s feed, it’s difficult to for an ethics based on scarcity to sustain itself.
subpixel space • After Authenticity
The need for romantic love is thus imagined as so deeply entrenched in the structures of feminine subjectivity that women desire nothing so much as to be safely ensconced in the institutions, marriage and family, that will secure it. As de Beauvoir describes the woman in search of love and marriage, “she chooses to want her enslavement so ardently ... See more
Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work
All of this erodes the value of ‘traditional’ media companies and cultural institutions since individuals will be more able to provide proof of passion without branded legitimization and artists will be able to fund their creative endeavors by selling proof of passion to their engaged communities. There will also be major downsides to transforming ... See more
Jonathan Glick • Proof of Passion
Interest-based paid communities: These companies allow users to engage with others that share particular interests or face similar challenges, often centered around mental health, wellness, career guidance, or fitness.
Anne Lee Skates • Six Ways New Social Companies Will Monetize | Andreessen Horowitz
1k @ $100 / yr — Fan economy: patrons, subscription newsletters/content
Jonathan Hillis • Six economies of online creators
The neo-liberal organisation of our society is determining how we relate to our bodies, our partners, our colleagues, and our children — in short, to our identities. And you can’t get much more disordered than that.
Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
rather than transforming transactions into human relationships, they’ve done the opposite. Mediated by these platforms, human interactions come to feel more like transactions. Ultimately, they have reduced us to mere Consumers again, in this case not just of online content or even the products of corporations, but of each other.
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Thus, “the moments of sensual pleasure in the idea, the voice, the instrument are made into fetishes and torn away from any functions which could give them meaning.”They exemplify what media theorist David Cecchetto, building on the work of John Durham Peters, calls “incommunication”: the process by which the impossibility of true communication cre... See more