Talking about Walter Benjamin’s Art in the Age of Mechanical Reporudction and many of Jaron Lanier’s critique about open access has me thinking about the BBC series Black Mirror. Particularly the episode 15 Million Merits.
Online Culture: The Biggest Slum
In his book, “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto,” Jaron Lanier compares our current online culture to that of a slum. Lanier states that slums tend to have a noticeable higher presence of advertisements in contrast to those of wealthy neighborhoods. If we compare that statement, and think of…