Platform Capitalism Can’t Surveil Absurdism (and Worse)
Too Long; Didn’t Read
This essay retells Olive’s story, a New York City young artist who went looking for something *else* during the pandemic. Olive finds themself in niche and more niche internet spaces, begins to practice alternative ways of using social platforms. Olive offers us their sincere and complicated anxieties about an experience of the internet that evades surveillance capitalism.
Too Long; Didn’t Read
This essay retells Olive’s story, a New York City young artist who went looking for something *else* during the pandemic. Olive finds themself in niche and more niche internet spaces, begins to practice alternative ways of using social platforms. Olive offers us their sincere and complicated anxieties about an experience of the internet that evades surveillance capitalism.