Strictly speaking, the io9 sub-basement of the Gawker empire has rendered itself ridiculous by allowing a futurological fraudster fandom to colonize what was an enjoyably polycultural sf-fandom, whereupon the Gawker parent-site has been posting more critical and intelligent and qualified technoscience/digimedia content that is too serious sensible for what io9 has allowed itself to become. Any tent big enough to hold Robot Cultists is soon enough a tent empty of anybody but Robot Cultists. Annalee Newitz is absolutely smart enough to know better, but she chased Robot Cult eyeballs anyway with Dumb Dvorsky and comparable pseudo-scientific techno-transcendentalist digi-topian crapola -- so, live by the dumb-dumb Robocult, die in the dumb-dumb Robocalypse.
Strictly speaking, the io9 sub-basement of the Gawker empire has rendered itself ridiculous by allowing a futurological fraudster fandom to colonize what was an enjoyably polycultural sf-fandom, whereupon the Gawker parent-site has been posting more critical and intelligent and qualified technoscience/digimedia content that is too serious sensible for what io9 has allowed itself to become. Any tent big enough to hold Robot Cultists is soon enough a tent empty of anybody but Robot Cultists. Annalee Newitz is absolutely smart enough to know better, but she chased Robot Cult eyeballs anyway with Dumb Dvorsky and comparable pseudo-scientific techno-transcendentalist digi-topian crapola -- so, live by the dumb-dumb Robocult, die in the dumb-dumb Robocalypse.
ReplyDeleteAh, Morozov. His article about the Khannas was very illuminating indeed.
ReplyDeleteio9 is not only superfluous but also unusable after the introduction of the godawful so-WEB2.0!!-it-hurts UI.
"io9 is not only superfluous but also unusable after the introduction of the godawful so-WEB2.0!!-it-hurts UI."
ReplyDeleteYep awkward as hell.....we need a soopergenius to figure it out.
PS I had not heard of Mr Morozov untill I ran across the Gawker discussion, interesting guy...must have a look for his book.
I think it will have to be Amazon though, sorry Evgeny.