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Pig Slop, Culture Industry, Technopoly, CMNS Alan Röpke Pig Slop, Culture Industry, Technopoly, CMNS Alan Röpke

Addictainment

Kick’s roofied mediatized cocktail of entertainment, hate speech, and radicalization demonstrates the path unregulated entertainment has ahead as technologies continue to get more accessible, and entertainment becomes even more entrenched into every sphere of life. The harmful spectacle that is more alluring, more enticing to consume. This is the process of Addictainment, the societal outlet for a violent entertainment.

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Technopoly, CMNS, Pig Slop Alan Röpke Technopoly, CMNS, Pig Slop Alan Röpke

Mediatized Stimuli

All life becomes mediatized, experience now consumable via multistimuli form. An experience is not lived through in these conditions, instead you live a life of a perma-voyeur. Simultaneously hyperstimulated and unsatisfied, two magnetized points through which you cycle through.

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Technopoly, CMNS, Culture Industry Tatiana Rasco Technopoly, CMNS, Culture Industry Tatiana Rasco

Return to Form

We’ve witnessed a rapid resurgence of analog technology, with vinyl records and film cameras sparking revitalized interest among younger audiences. This phenomenon is a testament to our generation's collective fascination with the past, our attempt to find a semblance of authenticity or a connection to the tangible, in a vastly digitized world.

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Culture Industry, Pig Slop, CMNS, Technopoly Alan Röpke Culture Industry, Pig Slop, CMNS, Technopoly Alan Röpke

The Electrical-Umbilical Battery Status

I think my phone spends more time charging than it does vice versa. This is mentally sound. In fact, I don’t trust the battery status to just show me a green, yellow, or red to signify what my battery level is at. I want to see the exact percent I am currently operating at—how much abstract time remains for the object of my love and adoration to continue serving me.

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Pig Slop, Culture Industry, CMNS, Technopoly Alan Röpke Pig Slop, Culture Industry, CMNS, Technopoly Alan Röpke

Modern Mimicries of Creativity

The consequence of our contemporary era’s understanding of the utilization of creativity is a desire for control over the emotional/material conditions of life that leaves a wallowing want for more. Contemporary mimicries of creativity are realized as an unauratic, surface-level embodiment of segments of meaning that lost their genuineness long ago—appearing, but like lensless spectacles.

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CMNS, Culture Industry, Pig Slop, Technopoly Alan Röpke CMNS, Culture Industry, Pig Slop, Technopoly Alan Röpke

Oh How I Need My Headphones

Headphones render life itself into silence. You experience a deep sensorial and emotional inner life, but you withhold that, determining that this is a gift for yourself, allowing it to ring through your head as your ears follow suit. And when you’re forced to go out into the world without your trusty earsidekick—you struggle to rekindle what life used to sound like. An alien in your own commute.

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Culture Industry, Pig Slop, Technopoly Alan Röpke Culture Industry, Pig Slop, Technopoly Alan Röpke

We Have to Move Faster

This country needs energy. Imagine the things we could do if we all moved faster, if we all ran and sped TOWARDS change. We need to be running daily, no more walking, NO MORE WALKING. RUN to the polls, RUN to the grocery store, RUN to a psychiatrist and get a stimulant prescription. Run back a month later and ask for a HIGHER DOSE. Run a CELSIUS© down your throat. SWALLOW NICOTINE GUM WHOLE. We need to put our pedal to the metal and MOVE. We’re running out of time.

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Pig Slop, CMNS, Culture Industry, Technopoly Alan Röpke Pig Slop, CMNS, Culture Industry, Technopoly Alan Röpke

Multitasking Man

Multitasking Man is the embodiment of someone who has lost control to their infinite appetite for distractions. Multitasking work with entertainment. The behavior the symptom of a deeply addicted individual, one who lacks agency unless certain stimuli are fried to satisfatory numbess. Only the extent of your ever-dwindling agency is the determiner of whether you rise into productivity or continue swallowing water, sinking into stasis.

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Pig Slop, CMNS, Culture Industry, Technopoly Alan Röpke Pig Slop, CMNS, Culture Industry, Technopoly Alan Röpke

The Death Drive of Short-Form Content

Consuming short-form content is a process of self-harm. Drawn-out long-form suicide, via short-form bursts of unfeelable pain. The most shameful form of suicide. It is the slow death of your attention span, a slow descent into mental/emotional subordination, the process of losing a temporal grasp of your life. Waving a dilapidated goodbye to your newly disfigured consciousness as you surrender fully to The Entertainment.

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Pig Slop, CMNS, Culture Industry, Technopoly Alan Röpke Pig Slop, CMNS, Culture Industry, Technopoly Alan Röpke

Slopify

Every month I am greeted by a new, increasingly worse UI. Everything degrades, everything rots. But iTunes’s clunkiness and customizability felt more physical if that makes sense. It was pleasantly cumbersome in its depth of options, a right click would lead to 20 different selection bars, each with their own drop-down menus of possible query. Spotify on the other hand, feels like an attack on the intelligence of anyone who uses it.

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Pig Slop, CMNS, Technopoly Alan Röpke Pig Slop, CMNS, Technopoly Alan Röpke

The Thumbnail-Trust Ratio

Online entertainment media has created a want for novelty only if it is within the relations of trust, the insane level of intimacy they have built with their pre-existing objects of consumption. It’s a form of engagement with already consumed media that thumbnails function to. A thumbnail’s role is in complete relation to trust.

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