The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

I was attracted to making art that lived on social media because it boasted an emancipation of the means of production and as a result, a totally uninhibited method of expression. However, after I started posting I realised the technologies which appeared as laboratory had their own inherent techniques of exercising control. In this video, I attempt to articulate what might be called 'a critique of the political economy of content creation' wherein I examine the base of social media as profit-generating for private and corporate owners, and how that shapes the super-structural panoptic algorithm which in turn maintains the base of mass production. Works cited in order of appearance: Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1932) Read here: https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benja... Michel Foucault: Discipline & Punish: The Birth of The Prison (1975) Read here: https://monoskop.org/images/4/43/Fouc... Mark Fisher: Capitalist Realism, Is There No Alternative? (2009) Read here: https://files.libcom.org/files/Capita... Fredric Jameson: PostModernism; or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1989) Read here: https://sporastudios.org/mark/courses... Karl Marx: The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (1932) Read here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx... Karl Marx: Communist Manifesto (1848) Read here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx... Songs used in order of appearance: OTE - Disco Robots - Listen here:    • Disco Robots   Glenn Gould - Variation 1a1 Clav. - Listen here:    • Gould plays Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV...   LCD Soundsystem - Us v Them (Live at Madison Square Garden) - Listen here:    • us v them (live at madison square garden)   Gioachino Rossini - La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) : Overture - Listen here:    • La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) : Ove...