Everything Is Sludge: Art in the Post-Human Era

Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: – TikTok sludge is overwhelming, uninteresting, and almost impossible to stop watching. How did a genre everyone hates take over the algorithm? – Support the channel on Patreon: Twitter: Letterboxd: Instagram: – Sources: Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer – The Culture Industry Something Is Wrong on the Internet @jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2 New York Magazine – Inside the Strange and Slightly Creepy World of Surprise Egg Videos YouTube Kids availability YouTube Kids manual channel approval: YouTube’s Content ID Meta’s copyright detection How the Framing In ’Mad Max: Fury Road’ Keeps the Viewer Oriented in a Chaotic World In Her Own Time: An Interview with Chantal Akerman – Media used (not an exhaustive list): Opening Elsa animation Surprise egg video Soap-cutting Minecraft parkour Cryptoland Volksgeist’s video on Yeat (this is the original version) This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage How To Be Ninja ​​ Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976) Columbus (2017) – “This is content production in the age of algorithmic discovery — even if you’re a human, you have to end up impersonating the machine.“ – James Bridle, “Something is wrong on the internet“