Capitalist cyberspace has normalized precariousness, competitiveness, and casual aggression

Evidence

The simple answer involves two closely related factors: shifts in the economy, and the ubiquity of the internet. The resulting composite - capitalist cyberspace - has normalised extreme precariousness (the sense that nothing is permanent, everything is constantly under threat), competitiveness and casual aggression. One consequence is a new breed of celebrity, typified by twenty-four-year-old Farrah Abraham, the unofficial star of the latest Celebrity Big Brother. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 772

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: the reality-TV ‘twist’ as the televisual form of neoliberal precariousness — where unpredictability is manufactured rather than emergent.
• XREF: connects to: Digital networking creates a subtler but more implacable conformism than bourgeois convention. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 185; The internet shattered capitalism’s evolutionary fitness rather than defeating or entrenching it — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 232; Digital capitalism profits from unpaid pleasurable user activity. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 197 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• The internet shattered capitalism’s evolutionary fitness rather than defeating or entrenching it #complicates (0.80) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 232
• Communicative capitalism’s micro-enjoyments fragment attention into de-activating anxiety #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1824
• Capitalism’s resilience comes from its plasticity in adopting new social forms #qualifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1647
• Digital capitalism profits from unpaid pleasurable user activity. #expands (0.72) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 197
• Internet self-representation conceals a capitalist infrastructure producing the self as commodity #expands (0.72)
• The digital economy functions as legitimating hegemonic ideology for capitalism #expands (0.72) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 16
• Gilded Age social Darwinism and ‘network effects’ both excuse capitalist concentration as fate #exemplifies (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 340
• Cognitive capitalism blurs the work-play divide by investing in minds and social relations #expands (0.72) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 366
• Technology’s cultural effects are mediated by late capitalism not deterministically #qualifies (0.72) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 410