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SPEAKING at a TED conference in Vancouver last Thursday, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, announced ...

In  Algorithmic Desire, Matthew Flisfeder shows that social media is a metaphor that reveals the dominant form of contemporary ideology: neoliberal capitalism. The preeminent medium of our time, social media’s digital platform and algorithmic logic shape our experience of democracy, enjoyment, and desire. Weaving between critical theory and analyses of popular culture, Flisfeder uses examples from  The King’s Speech,  Black Mirror,  The Circle, and  Arrival to argue that social media ...