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298 - Mary Harrington - Conspiracies and the Return of Myth

The Symbolic World

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The Neo-Feudalism of Attention

I think that your, but I think your intuition is right. And it has to do again with, I wouldn't use the word attention in this case, but I'd use the word care. You can't ask a machine to say, show me an image which is not disgusting. And be absolutely certain that it'll succeed in doing so. But I mean, that's where I've got to up until now. I think a lot of writers are doomed. I might be one of them, I might not, we'll just have to speak with that. I'm working on Plan B just in case. Yeah, yeah. That kind of neo-feudalism, you

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