Re: the first spin-off from “Orgies for Free”

(Part one of many posts re: the spin-off. The below won’t make (much) sense if you haven’t read the two previous posts.)

Will help to:

• popularize Adver-ties and Adver-tease
• disrupt Facebook

Planned title

Sexcerpts in the City: the Making of “Girl Groups”

Re: Girl Groups (GG)

Fictional series (e.g., originates as a serial novel that incorporates images, video, etc.)

Set initially in 1959, at and around the Brill Building in New York City

From 2005 book Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era (my emphases):

[A] remarkable group of songwriters . . . in the late 1950s and early ’60s . . . pioneered a distaff doo-wop, the girl-group sound of the Shirelles, the Crystals, the Ronettes, and the Shangri-Las.

Re: the business case for GG

The sexual revolution of the 1960s and ’70s is a precedent for orgies-for-free.

From 2001 book Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History:

This book is . . . about the social and cultural transformations of the 1960s and ’70s.

. . . Developed in 1957 and licensed by the Food and Drug Administration in 1960, the birth control pill — which quickly became known simply as “the pill” — gave women a greater sense of sexual freedom than any contraceptive device that had come before.

As seen in my previous post, a key to preventing a next-gen poverty trap is political activism. Activism PRECEDENT: 1960s. Keywords: music as catalyst.

From 1987 book The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage:

[T]he Fifties’ teenage culture marked the territory for the far larger youth upheaval . . . Rock and roll and its dances were the opening wedge.

From Always Magic in the Air:

Expressing the optimism . . . of the early civil rights movement, it [i.e., the music of the Brill Building Era] amalgamated black, white and Latino sounds before multiculturalism became a concept . . . and integrated audiences before American desegregated its schools.

From 1977 book The Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties:

To many . . . what mattered most about the sixties . . . was the emergence of a mass politics of student protest and moral outrage, first against the threat of nuclear war and the mistreatment of blacks in the south, then against the escalating war in Vietnam.

Re: Sexcerpts

— Summary (details follow) —

There are many more (aspiring) sugar babies than there are sugar parents.

So sugar babies on Adver-tease can be expected to compete partly via their pseudonymous blogs.

A key to blogging pseudonymously is preventing AI from outing you via “your fairly unique and individual linguistic fingerprint or style.”

A key to blogging pseudonymously, then, is making abundant use of excerpts.

An ideal way to popularize Adver-tease, then, could be providing software that recommends sexcerpts (e.g., passages from erotic fiction).

Precedent for an excerpt recommender

https://books.google.com/talktobooks/

Re: AI identifying “your fairly unique and individual linguistic fingerprint or style”

From 2015 book The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel:

“[Y]ears of research in authorship attribution and stylometrics have suggested that each of us has a fairly unique and individual linguistic fingerprint or style.”

“In early July of 2013 a U.S. professor received a random phone call from across the Atlantic. The stranger on the end of the line asked him to help solve a mystery. The professor was asked to bring his special expertise in hidden patterns to correct history. Within a week he would be in the spotlight, all over the international news. The story sounds just like something Dan Brown would make up and then sell about a hundred million copies. But in this instance, the professor was not Robert Langdon but Patrick Juola, his domain was not symbology but stylometrics, and his case study was not the Catholic Church but J. K. Rowling. Juola, a professor of computer science and an expert on computational authorship attribution, was asked by a Sunday Times news reporter to investigate a new novel. That novel was The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith, a debut author who had ostensibly drawn on his years as a member of the Royal Military Police to write a detective story. But the reporter had been tipped off. The anonymous hint was that Galbraith didn’t really exist and that the real author was in fact the Harry Potter creator. Was it true? Juola worked on the case. Within thirty minutes, his computer gave him sufficient evidence to support the tip-off.

. . . Even when Rowling tried, very consciously, to write like “Robert Galbraith” and not like J. K. Rowling, there were habits and patterns to her prose that she could not successfully suppress.”

Bonus motivation for OSG to provide said recommender

Via inputs of additional data, it can recommend excerpts to bloggers who use Adver-ties.

Bonus motivation #2

Via inputs from Adver-ties, the recommender can help OSG leverage its comedies to showcase users of Adver-ties.

Re: excerpt-rich narratives

The popularity of 2010 book Reality Hunger: A Manifesto has primed many influential readers to favor such narratives.

From Reality Hunger:

My intent is to write the ars poetica for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists in a multitude of forms and media — lyric essay, prose poem, collage novel [my emphasis], visual art, film, television, radio, performance art, rap, stand-up comedy, graffiti — who are breaking larger and larger chunks of “reality” into their work.

. . . Method of this project: literary montage.

. . . Most of the passages in this book are taken from other sources.

From a December 2014 article in The New Yorker:

“Reality Hunger” galvanized many critics and novelists alike.

. . . Shields’s belief that the traditional novel is dated and that the way forward — aesthetically, if not commercially — lies in non-novels or at least non-traditional novels now represents the fashionable position in the literary world.

From Reality Hunger:

The mimetic function in art hasn’t so much declined as mutated. The tools of metaphor have expanded. As the culture becomes more saturated by different media, artists can use larger and larger chunks of the culture to communicate. . . . In collage, writing is stripped of the pretense of originality and appears as a practice of mediation, of selection and contextualization, a practice, almost, of reading.

Re: excerpts are an IDEAL literary device for OfF and spin-offs

Excerpt-rich narrative is the literary embodiment of orgies-for-free.

Precedent for literary embodiment via collage and intertextuality

From 2013 book Distant Reading, for which the author received the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (my emphases):

At the turn of the [20th] century, the entire planet is channeled into the Western metropolis (Cosmopolis, as some decide to call it) and the truly epic, world-historical scope of many modernist works is indeed dependent on Europe’s world domination.

Unpleasant but true, imperialism plays for modernism the same role played by the French Revolution for the realist novel; it poses the basic problem — how can such a heterogeneous and growing wealth be perceived? how can it be mastered? — addressed by collage, intertextuality, or the stream of consciousness. Without imperialism, in other words, we would have no modernism; its raw materials would be lacking, and also the challenge that animated many of its inventions.

Re: excerpt-rich narratives can be expected to proliferate as a result of societal change being rapid and accelerating rapidly

From 2011 book I’ll Have What She’s Having: Mapping Social Behavior, published by MIT Press:

For dynamic social landscapes, the take-home message . . . is clear: . . . copy those who succeed and act quickly, so you don’t fall behind the other copiers.

From 2009 book On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction, published by Harvard University Press:

As both tellers and listeners, we use narrative strategically [e.g., collage novelists demonstrate their copying chops by excerpting from texts that are authoritative, exemplary, etc.].

Re: if you’re still anti-excerpts, give it some time

From Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties, by eminent literary scholar Morris Dickstein:

[T]he aesthetics of ugliness . . . [is] one key to every modern avant-garde since Wordsworth and Coleridge ( — who were also condemned by critics for artlessness and banality, according to eighteenth-century standards of poetic “beauty”). Every modern movement at first looks ugly and inartistic to the extent that it dislocates existing norms. Only later does it create its own norm . . .

From 1994 book Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez, by the author of Distant Reading:

[P]lans and poetics function (perhaps) when inside a stable formal paradigm: in times of normal literature, so to speak. But if paradigms are shifting . . . [p]oetics plod along behind this, often far behind. They certainly do not guide it, and usually do not even really understand it.

Toward “Re: Sexcerpts in the City will help to disrupt Facebook”

Facebook can be expected to clone Adver-ties.

Facebook has a long history of bad behavior.

From 2019 book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, by a venture capitalist who was an early investor in Facebook:

At the time that Kogan and Cambridge Analytica misappropriated fifty million user profiles, Facebook was operating under a 2011 consent decree with the FTC that barred Facebook from deceptive practices with respect to user privacy. The decree required explicit, informed consent from users before Facebook could share their data. Apparently, Facebook had taken no steps to secure consent from the friends of the 270,000 test takers, which is to say, something like 49.7 million Facebook users.

. . . Facebook’s argument that it had been a victim of Cambridge Analytica fell apart when Slate’s April Glaser reminded her readers that the company had hired and continued to employ Joseph Chancellor, who had been Aleksandr Kogan’s partner in the startup that harvested Facebook user profiles on behalf of Cambridge Analytica. Facebook had known about the connection between Cambridge Analytica and Kogan/Chancellor since at least December 2015. They should have been really angry at Kogan and Chancellor for misappropriating the data set. Why would they hire someone who had misappropriated private user data? And yet Chancellor was now a Facebook employee.

. . . If Facebook employees had not worked with Cambridge Analytica inside the Trump campaign only months after the data-misappropriation scandal first broke in December 2015, Facebook might have had a viable alibi.

. . . Now that reporters and users were looking for it, they found examples of bad behavior every day. A particularly ugly example emerged on March 29 in a story from BuzzFeed. It described an internal Facebook memo written in January 2016 by Vice President of Advertising Andrew Bosworth, entitled “The Ugly.” Written the day after a Facebook Live video captured the shooting death of a man in Chicago, the memo justified Facebook’s relentless pursuit of growth in sinister terms.

“We connect people. Period. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it,” VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth wrote.

“So we connect more people,” he wrote in another section of the memo. “That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies.”

“Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”

Facebook owns Instagram.

From a 2018 article in USA Today titled “Cambridge Analytica: British broadcaster secretly tapes ‘honey-trap’ claims”:

British broadcaster Channel 4 secretly filmed the CEO of Cambridge Analytica saying his company could entrap politicians in compromising situations.

The investigation broadcast Monday night in Britain showed one exchange in which Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix said the company could “send some girls around to the candidate’s house.”

Ukrainian girls, he said, “are very beautiful. I find that works very well.”

Many top technologists are high-functioning autistics (e.g., have Asperger’s Syndrome).

~30% of male Aspies have “pedophilic sexual fantasies of female children,” according to the 2017 paper in Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience titled “Sexuality in autism: hypersexual and paraphilic behavior in women and men with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder.”

It’s at least somewhat likely that many underage girls want to have sugar daddies the minute the girls reach the age of consent.

From 2011 documentary Girl Model:

From The Bestseller Code:

Since 2008, some of the biggest books have been about “those girls.” . . . The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . . . The Girl Who Played with Fire . . . The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest . . . Gillian Flynn took over the literary world with Gone Girl . . . The Girl on the Train . . . All of them were not “just” NYT bestsellers, they were those sort of instant phenomenon books that broke into every reading demographic and almost single-handedly kept some book retailers going.

. . . The girl who makes it to the list is a funny kind of girl, a new heroine in mass culture. She is not the sweet child. . . .

[Certain] understandings of [literary] character argue that a character is something that stands in one particular gender, social, or cultural role . . . [W]e learn, through them, about agency in the whole system [of roles]. The protagonists of the recent girl novels . . . disrupt the tired and typical positions in the system.

. . . These girls are somehow all of it — the good, the bad, the problem, and the solution.