![]() Lewis Simons is here in the studio to talk about the legacy of cluster bombs in Laos and what we might learn from it today. Well, we raise this because cluster bombs are back in the news, given President Biden's controversial move to send them to Ukraine. dropped more than 270 million cluster bombs on Laos. “It is an object with which we have a relationship of suspicion, about which we talk humorously, or which we try to deceive or mislead,” she states about an era of technological “hyper-awareness” in which we have accepted that discovering new and strange things not only requires the desire to do so: it also takes time and lots of skill to confuse the algorithm.The most heavily bombed country in the history of the world - more than Japan, more than Germany, more than Britain - is Laos. To Beirak, our relationship with the algorithm is anything but innocent. The debate would go beyond the algorithm as a formula it would have to do with the relationship we establish with culture, not so much as a field that transforms us, but rather as something that eases the fatigue that daily life can cause,” she says. “Perhaps due to laziness, tiredness or a lack of curiosity, we don’t care and are satisfied with what we’re given. The position of the privilege of strangeness is shared by Jazmín Beirak, a Spanish researcher in cultural politics and author of the essay Cultura ingobernable (Ungovernable culture). “There is no single experience of strangeness,” reflects the thinker, skeptical of a segmentation of taste that distances us from a possible encounter with what she calls “those strange people who reveal something about us that we didn’t know.”Įmma Seligman’s ‘BOTTOMS’ starring Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri holds a score of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Spanish philosopher Marina Garcés, who has repeatedly denounced the gamification of a “superficial culture” that is far removed from the general culture, is opposed to these practices in which we basically consume by checking off lists of things we have seen, experienced, read or consumed. Challenges to achieve the greatest possible number of annual readings or viewings have become popular, with users rating everything they come across in a race against time. Not everyone sees the way in which cultural consumption has become covered by the umbrella of efficiency as a positive thing. That dynamic can certainly be detrimental to the cultural product itself, because artists are forced to make their work as safe and acceptable as possible.” The privilege of strangeness I think artists today are under more pressure than ever from the public, because they can see what everyone is saying online and rate the success of their art in terms of likes. “What happened with Elizabeth Gilbert is an example of this. But, all too often, these platforms reward fueling controversy and trolling instead of meaningful discussion,” explains Kyle Chayka, a staff writer for The New Yorker covering technology and culture on the internet and author of The Longing for Less, who will publish a new essay in 2024, Filterworld, on how our cultural tastes have become atrophied by the algorithm. “All these platforms like Goodreads or Letterboxd allow more people to express their opinions about culture, which is usually a good thing because criticism doesn’t just belong to the professionals: everyone deserves their own opinion. “DESPECHÁ” by breaks the record for the biggest single-day streams for a song by a female artist in Spanish Spotify chart history (2.016 million). What are the consequences of this quantification of culture? The most anticipated films will be those close to a score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and with viral Letterboxd comments, and Twitter now decides if a movie will flop based on the minutes of applause it gets at festivals. Songs become hits depending on the amount of times they are streamed on their release day. Gilbert’s case raises the question: is the cult of scoring every cultural product we consume getting out of hand? Stars define interest in Goodreads, which in turn influences the reviews of the critics, who try not to stray too far from the popular opinion. ![]() The author of Bad Feminist was alluding to “review bombing,” a technique of extortion, often economic, that has become popular in recent years (in addition to books, it also occurs on websites that list restaurants or hotels). It undermines what little credibility they have left,” tweeted essayist Roxane Gay. The Goodreads page of The Snow Forest has been disabled, but the incident prompted other writers to denounce the direction that the platform is taking: “Goodreads really needs a mechanism for stopping one-star attacks on writers. ![]() OAEmrjtfJx- Elizabeth Gilbert June 12, 2023 Please note that if you were charged for your pre-order, you will be fully refunded. Important announcement about THE SNOW FOREST. ![]()
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