"Why this emphasis on curation - on gathering, filtering, selecting, framing, juxtaposing? Because..."

 
 

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"Why this emphasis on curation - on gathering, filtering, selecting, framing, juxtaposing? Because..."

"Why this emphasis on curation - on gathering, filtering, selecting, framing, juxtaposing? Because curation is the native art of the network, and the network - digital, neural, bacterial, financial - now dominates our lives. It has become our latest implacable paradigm. Indeed, even the increasingly intelligent behaviour of the applications and processes we encounter on the internet - Google searches, shopping recommendations, ads that follow us across multiple websites - reflect a kind of personalised curation carried out by algorithms acting on the copious crumbs of data our online doppelgängers leave behind them."

- Erik Davis, The Thing is Alive, essay contribution to The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things by Mark Leckey. 

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