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Algorithmic Curation

 

Algorithmic Curation

[ PROCESS . USED WITH OBJECT ]
[ al-gə-ˈriTH-mik kyoo-ˈrā-shən ]
The automated governance of cultural visibility; the systematic prioritization of content based on predictive modeling rather than human editorial intent.
Ex. Algorithmic curation has flattened the digital landscape, trading the messy vitality of human experience for a sanitized, profitable simulation of interest.
1890–95; variant of algorism, by association with Greek arithmós number.
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Perspektiv

Colour theory no. 6

A study on perspective presenting intersecting planes. From ‘Colour Theory,’ 2020.

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Dangerous Præcedents

Fake words. Or Walden ponds. A new thought series. Part treatise on digital aesthetics and part ongoing project on language.

Recidivistic Predation

[ COMPONENT . EXTRACTIVE ]
[ rə-ˌsi-də-ˈvis-tik prə-ˈdā-shən ]
The institutional exploitation of cyclic criminalization; the systematic extraction of capital or political utility from the recurring incarceration of marginalized populations.
Ex. The American Midwest functions as a primary laboratory for recidivistic predation, where pervasive institutional complicity ensures a self-perpetuating loop of carceral revenue.
latin recidivus (recurring) + praedatio (plunder). related to præcedent (eng. adj. obsolete).
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Cultural Incest

Fake words. Or Walden ponds. A new thought series. Part treatise on digital aesthetics and part ongoing project on language.

Cultural Incest

Noun. /ˈkəlCH(ə)rəl ˈinˌsest/ ]

  1. When culture reinforces its own ignorance. Cultural isolation and the resulting inbreeding of ideas and distrust of outsiders. The state of isolation often becomes austere and ultimately toxic to social outcomes.

Ex:After a few generations of cultural incest, the group’s relationship to truth is opaque to the point that pursuing it, as a means to lead them, is futile.

Dys. Inversely related to Latin function, functio performance, from fungi to perform.