The internet didn’t kill counterculture–you just won’t find it on Instagram
The internet didn’t kill counterculture–you just won’t find it on Instagram
“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
Wow this was a great read that really crystallized many things which have been on my mind lately.
On the dark edges of the early internet, hackers foresaw the enclosure of the public commons long before the likes of 6ix9ine, Snowden, and teenage Gen Z. These users developed an ethos that valued the radical freedom of a fully anonymous, hyperconnected zone where people could communicate unburdened by their physical bodies and government names.
People of internet. My people!
deeper and closer connections made between people even while rejecting the platform’s compulsion to “like and share.” In the internet era, true counterculture is difficult to see, and even harder to find—but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.