Astra Taylor Quotes
Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.
First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.
One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.
New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.
And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model.
One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.
What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.
On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.