Web 2.0 distributes culture but does not generate new cultural production

Evidence

The law of Web 2.0 is that everything comes back, whether it be adverts, public information films or long-forgotten TV serials: history happens first as tragedy, then as YouTube. The pop artists who supposedly became successful because of web clamour (Sandi Thom, Arctic Monkeys) turned out to be quaintly archaic in form; in any case, they were pushed through the familiar promotional machinery of big record companies and PR firms. There is peer-to-peer distribution of culture, but little sign of peer-to-peer production. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1230

Categorization

• XREF: ‘History happens first as tragedy, then as YouTube’ riffs on Marx; connects to the hauntological media-palimpsest claims of ch66 and ch25’s point that perfect archiving kills the evanescence of media. — connects to: Web 2.0 enabled distribution of culture, not its peer production. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1230