zaxtreme 's review for:

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

5.0

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I really enjoyed this. It makes sense that I really enjoyed this because it may as well have been crafted in a lab for me. The perfect synthesis of disdain for extractive capitalism at all costs, a yearning for deeper connection to art, and an unabashed love for and desire to more deeply explore esoteric pockets of media.

The slightly ponderous pace felt— actually really fitting for the content of the book. I feel slightly that I listened to this as an audiobook and that I’m reviewing it on a social book app…