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EP 25: LIFE GO BRRR (Venkatesh Rao)

New Models

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The Future of Media

This is from culture on our discord. Future nauseous and the manufactured normalcy field are two of my favorite terms though there from 2012. They relate to log level as they describe the subjective experience of change slash becoming at the societal scale. Venkat had a critique of artistic futurism as a futile, futile practice. Invocations of the future are commodities for a certain class of trendy elites. Coincidentally, it is a Machiavellian practice of market futurism, which gives people the power to anticipate or exploit latent capacities for change in society. Think Steve Jobs unveiling the first iPhone. Its design is both obvious and impossible to VenkateshA new design whether technological

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