The Twittering Machine - Richard Seymour
The Twittering Machine - Richard Seymour In surrealist artist Paul Klee's 'The Twittering Machine', the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation.…
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The Twittering Machine - Richard Seymour
In surrealist artist Paul Klee's 'The Twittering Machine', the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for relationship with social media.
We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. Like drug addicts, we are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share.