Craig & Adam - The Ecstasy of Communication
Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
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Is Twitter a Symbolic Economy?
There's no wealth on Twitter, you can't spend anything. You gain the ecstatic moment of putting yourself out there and being circuit for all of these circuits. The things that he tried to do seem rather antiquated,. We can put a finer point and say exactly what those things are. But moreover, he's in violation of this sort of tacit Machiavellianism that takes place in the semiosphere of Twitter. And I think that's the pathology angle of it that I think that quote was sort of getting it.
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