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But hearing the originator in person, with all that is missing as well as the new qualities of continuity, age, rust, wear, and wearing away—it’s moving, almost to the point of awe, or holiness. All the more so the better you know the recorded originals. The compensations or losses are the point. Plus the fact of the continuity of the person—that they are still here, performing for you.

The show affords epistemological priority to Emily by focusing on her enchanting romantic dramas, sure, but it also lingers on sequences where French people berate her for being corny and basic, suggesting a degree of cultural self-awareness even where it threatens to alienate viewers who might see themselves in the protagonist. Even Emily’s dutiful, dead-eyed preoccupation with virality and marketing analytics mirrors Netflix’s obsession with its own growth. It is as if TV finally looked at...

Here, within the novel’s warped internal political economy, emerges a final convergence between Eggers and Bezos: a literalized obsession with the customer as both narrative phenomenon and market force, a figure who could put a stop to Amazon’s dominance if only they could resist the great deals.

There is so much that is novelistic about Amazon. Having amassed the volumes of power and capital formerly reserved for sovereign nation-states, and having fully realized the diffuse postwar project of subsuming information technologies into commodity markets, the retail giant/cloud-computing host/t...