Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)
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The Art World Is Obsessed With Self Representation
I think quite a stoochie pointed out that Zuckerberg has no idea what the metaverse is for and what we'll do. So he made this case for artists even though I never think that artists are a good solution to any politics. In fact, what you want, what you should be doing now is to give all these American teenagers who are who are at the moment posting on Discord,. Give them goggles and make them go and make the metaverse and will pay your art school fees or whatever the equivalent is. That means that there is some responsibility for a particular creative class in a certain sense to try to rescue the technology. Now it wouldn't be the first time this has happened
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