Are you familiar with C. Thi Nguyen's concept of value capture? It echoes your analysis in this post, and also relates to some of the other writing you've been doing around content as capital, influence, and the pump & dump bestseller list schemes.
Oooh, this looks right up my alley--thanks so much, Tara! I was going to say that I was vaguely aware of Nguyen, then I looked him up and recognized his book, which is where I must have first heard of him. The book's on my wishlist, but I may have to take a look at it sooner rather than later!
In Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil', Sam's dining companions choose entres from beautiful 'Art Culinaire' menu images and are served three lumpy green scoops of glop; in modernist Amazonia our fellow consumers choose the five-star anti-fungal cream that's procured for just us, popped up on our screen, and we get three tubes of green lumpy glop. And we get it in two days. Progress. I had no idea how insidious the system's become. And how completely shittified; but I burned my 'membership' down eight years ago.
Are you familiar with C. Thi Nguyen's concept of value capture? It echoes your analysis in this post, and also relates to some of the other writing you've been doing around content as capital, influence, and the pump & dump bestseller list schemes.
https://philpapers.org/rec/NGUVCH
Oooh, this looks right up my alley--thanks so much, Tara! I was going to say that I was vaguely aware of Nguyen, then I looked him up and recognized his book, which is where I must have first heard of him. The book's on my wishlist, but I may have to take a look at it sooner rather than later!
In Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil', Sam's dining companions choose entres from beautiful 'Art Culinaire' menu images and are served three lumpy green scoops of glop; in modernist Amazonia our fellow consumers choose the five-star anti-fungal cream that's procured for just us, popped up on our screen, and we get three tubes of green lumpy glop. And we get it in two days. Progress. I had no idea how insidious the system's become. And how completely shittified; but I burned my 'membership' down eight years ago.