Nice visual/written essay by Terry Godier on how material goods of capitalism (phone, appliances, apps) shifted from being products to becoming relationships. This shift is a mirror of neoliberal subjectivity that demands ‘work on the self’ via moral imperatives. www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...
it looks and feels as though you are being informed, and you can take "actions" (place bets, make posts, etc.), but it entails achieving a sublime ignorance that looks like a generated image of "being informed"
if more "information" is always flowing in, you never have to worry about synthesizing it or assimilating it — the biggest threat is that the flow will stop and you will have to assess what you now supposedly know
the casino sportsbook as an "informational sublime" where information becomes so perfectly actionable that it becomes useless, like an arbitrage always already played out kneelingbus.substack.com/p/situationg...
AI slop, then, is like Disneyland in Baudrillard's argument: it is meant to make us think "content" still could have content, that posting could be other than just slop
the message in all content becomes "engage with content" — which means that "content" is abolished and replaced with pure form: ceaseless engagement with engagement
disjunctionsmag.com/articles/end...
