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The Feed - Kernel Magazine Issue 6

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We were told a decade and a half ago by certain invested parties that software was eating the world. If that was true, what stage of digestion have we reached now? This issue's theme is Feed; here, we refer to the feeds and flows that fuel contemporary society, be they agricultural, industrial, or informational. FEEDs feed us, propel us, consume us. As we encounter them in our daily lives, they entrain us. We become accustomed to their regimented motion, whether that takes the form of the much bemoaned pattern of doomscrolling through half-dead social media sites or through the patterns of physical routing that the aisles of a grocery store or the lanes of a highway compel us towards. Feeds imply a certain regularity — the same illusion of constancy that allows water in laminar flow to seem like a single unchanging column rather than a jostling armada of individual molecules. The totalizing gaze of the Facebook feed at its most imperial, the oceans of data fed into large language model

iswhatweeat This issue of Kernel Magazine is about what we consume and what consumes us. We were told a decade and a half ago by certain invested parties that software was eating the world. If that was true, what stage of digestion have we reached now? This issue's theme is Feed; here, we refer to the feeds and flows that fuel contemporary society, be they agricultural, industrial, or informational. FEEDs feed us, propel us, consume us. As we encounter them in our daily lives, they entrain us. We become accustomed to their regimented motion, whether that takes the form of the much…

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