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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.