Culture, Communication, Complexity.

Tag: digital culture

Absurd Superficiality

The absurdity of the social media game is structural, not moral. Everyone is incentivised to speak, assert experience, belief, or fact, yet attention is allocated to whatever compresses fastest. To be heard, meaning is thinned, context stripped, time and place over-determined into slogans. Throughput beats processing. What looks like participation is actually a selection regime […]

Tags Complexity, social media, systems theory, digital culture, field logic, communication systems, attention economy, information overload, epistemic collapse, media critique, cognitive compression, algorithmic amplification, sense making, cultural pathology

Philosophy

The Temptation of Anonymity

Post author By G
Post date Dec 2, 2019
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The temptation of anonymity (in an age of relentlessly depersonalising self-expression) is to not commit a record of one’s own living trajectory into the biosphere and information networks of our era. It is of course a fallacy and rank impossibility – there is no identity camouflage or stealth technology. Self-identity was always a matter of […]

Tags anonymity, culture, digital culture, identity, personal identity, self, stealth

culture

Social Media: The Shame Game ?

Post author By G
Post date Apr 16, 2017
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The hyper-sensitivities of online social spaces have created a new moral matrix…

Tags digital culture, online, public shaming, shaming, vigilante