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Culture is dead. Nothing is new anymore, everything is now just a variation or an amalgam of recent culture. Software and hardware history have an element of th
by sfpotter 3y ago
Culture is dead. Nothing is new anymore, everything is now just a variation or an amalgam of recent culture. Software and hardware history have an element of the new about them if you didn’t experience them yourself, hence their enduring popularity as topics and objects of fetishization.
(Why culture is dead is another topic…)
- local_crmdgeon 3y agohttps://samkriss.substack.com/p/all-the-nerds-are-dead https://samkriss.substack.com/p/all-the-nerds-are-dead This covers that nicely
- DicIfTEx 3y agoMark Fisher touched on this in his essay “The Slow Cancellation of the Future”, discussed by him here: https://archive.org/details/markfisher-theslowcancellationofthefuture https://archive.org/details/markfisher-theslowcancellationof...