« It is fashionable to suggest that cyberspace is some island of the blessed where people are free to express their individuality. This is not true. I have seen many people spill out their emotions, their guts, online, and I did so myself until I began to see that I had commodified myself. Commodification means that you turn something into a product that has monetary value. In the 19th century commodities were made by workers in factories who were mostly exploited. But I created my interior thoughts as commodities for the board that I was posting to, like AOL. And that commodity was then sold on to other consumer entities as entertainment. Cyberspace is black hole. It absorbs energy and personality and represents it as an emotional spectacle. It is done by businesses that commodify human interaction and emotion. And we are getting lost in the spectacle. » — Carmen Hermosillo (1994) https://youtube/watch?v=Gj09kpA2Py8
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:00:40 +0000
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