De-Algorithmise Yourself and Face to Obscurity
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On counter-aesthetics and algorithmic wallflowers
The ‘wallflower’ stands at a sideline at the party and does not speak. In such a way, the flower becomes a piece of furniture, a fixture that stands by, as if a device on eco-sleep mode, in attendance. The line between a human agent and an ambient device is blurred. The wallflower’s interiority is revealed through the Wojak I Wish I Was at Home / They Don’t Know meme; in such a meme, Wojak is the wallflower, standing in the margins of the event, running internal commentary: ‘I wish I was at home playing video games’ or ‘They don’t know I’m mildly popular on left twitter’. Perhaps we have…
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