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"The problem of the present is one of information overload. Precipitated by the subliminal, extractivist architectures of social media and other platformed, networked internet cultures, ours is an era of distraction, exhaustion and anxiety." - More from Geert Lovink here: https://www.eurozine.com/extinction-internet/
I like the challenge in this from Lovint too...
"The French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, who passed away in August 2020, referred to our condition in terms of the Entropocene – analogous to the Anthropocene, albeit an epoch characterised by ‘the massive increase of entropy in all its forms (physical, biological and informational)’.1 Not just in the biosphere, but also in the infosphere, the loss of diversity is entropic and is both sterilizing and fragile, collapsing in on itself."
The fragility he talks about here would be far more self evident if it were not for the cacophonous din of multitudes speaking without listening. Social media become bullying zones where #heretics are burned unceremoniously at the "digital stake" and complex issue of real material import and wider social benefit are ignored...