Anand Pandian
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A cautionary note from Cory Doctorow, on the death spiral of for-profit platforms.
“This is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they’re locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they’re locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle. This is why … platforms like Prodigy transformed themselves overnight, from a place where you went for social connection to a place where you were expected to “stop talking to each other and start buying things.””
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
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Such a challenging and essential question. I was thinking about this the other day along the Jones Falls, running unexpectedly into a great blue heron, which was breathtaking, but also looking at the water striders skimming over the surface of one of the small branches of the river. Categories like “life” and “non-human” are so broad and over-general. There’s an infinity of vantage points on any situation, and therefore an infinity of “leverage points” for intervention. How to work with such deep openness feels both daunting and exciting.
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Love this! I thought a little with Münsterberg in an ethnography of filmmaking process I wrote a few years ago. If I had the language at the time, I might have conceptualized that book project as a reflection on design process. “Every dream becomes real, uncanny ghosts appear from nothing and disappear into nothing,” as he wrote in The Photoplay…