… [T]he forces of capital have always despised the commons, precisely because you can’t monetize it, and that their signature move has always been to denigrate whatever is shared and free (in this case, reality itself, time itself, which was designated as impossibly, unliveably boring, around 2008).
In its place they offer instead something costly, private, individuated … We are the product. Every kid on the train is in their private, monetized dream, giving up their human attention to the algorithm, which at some point down the line will be turned for somebody else’s profit.
Some Notes on Mediated Time – Zadie Smith in Dead and Alive.
Whatever I want to say, I find that Zadie Smith has said already, and far more eloquently.
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