Abstract:
The integration of screen or digital technologies into contemporary life might merely add another layer to the privatised spaces of late capitalism, but the overall effect is to customise subjective experience to an unprece – dented degree. The proliferation of choices for how we communicate and consume culture allows us to minimise exposure to anything we don’t like. ‘Smart’ technologies on phones and search engines remember our choices and offer up variations on the same, while advertisers track our data through social media and predict our desires. All of this adds up to a subtle yet profound change in individual experience. How might we encounter difference or otherness in an age where we can filter out things we don’t want or are not interested in? What happens to culture – a concept underpinned by shared experience – in an environment where we don’t experience much in common?
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