One of my former digital rhetoric students is now taking professional writing with me this semester and any time we are reading and thinking about anything involving AI or The Rot Economy or aesthetics or really any piece of this shitshow, she's quick to point out that the promise is a life without FRICTION. I think you're right to connect that with platformization training and what people are desperate for NOW/after.
this is probably my 3rd or 4th post now where I've ended up at friction, so it's safe to say that I think she's on the right path :) I've been meaning for a while now to write some more about attention, and I think there's a place in that discussion for it, too.
I think both you and Caddie get at the habitualization of both social media & AI. They're related through this, which is why I think the three of us are interested in it academically/research wise.
Good heavens. I find myself thinking about Terry Gilliam's 'Harry Buttle, guerilla heating and cooling technician'; and, not unlike Sam, the protagonist - victim of that story, dreaming of having a massive copper rod flung across the substation mains to see hundreds of servers arc-flash into puddles of solder and circuitry.
On the other hand, writers Zitron and Gioia are both foreseeing that this whole dreamworld of the techbros is unachievable. Not enough chips, not enough baseload available, not enough grid capacity, not enough Capital at the rate its being shoveled into the furnaces. But still, they mess with people and their lives. For money. Some say this is looking like an enormous bubble, with investors about to be fleeced. Oh well. Thanks for the lead to Kara Swisher here, too.
One of my former digital rhetoric students is now taking professional writing with me this semester and any time we are reading and thinking about anything involving AI or The Rot Economy or aesthetics or really any piece of this shitshow, she's quick to point out that the promise is a life without FRICTION. I think you're right to connect that with platformization training and what people are desperate for NOW/after.
this is probably my 3rd or 4th post now where I've ended up at friction, so it's safe to say that I think she's on the right path :) I've been meaning for a while now to write some more about attention, and I think there's a place in that discussion for it, too.
I think both you and Caddie get at the habitualization of both social media & AI. They're related through this, which is why I think the three of us are interested in it academically/research wise.
I googled "The rot economy" and now that's a good lead!
Good heavens. I find myself thinking about Terry Gilliam's 'Harry Buttle, guerilla heating and cooling technician'; and, not unlike Sam, the protagonist - victim of that story, dreaming of having a massive copper rod flung across the substation mains to see hundreds of servers arc-flash into puddles of solder and circuitry.
On the other hand, writers Zitron and Gioia are both foreseeing that this whole dreamworld of the techbros is unachievable. Not enough chips, not enough baseload available, not enough grid capacity, not enough Capital at the rate its being shoveled into the furnaces. But still, they mess with people and their lives. For money. Some say this is looking like an enormous bubble, with investors about to be fleeced. Oh well. Thanks for the lead to Kara Swisher here, too.