Paper Report Live: Special Slop Edition

The Never Post staff meet to discuss four academic papers on how the internet is getting worse, each from a special edition of the European Journal of Cultural Studies. How is slop like gelatin? In many more ways that you might immediately assume! Tune in to hear about them all!

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Brainrot, AI slop, and the enshittification of the Internet

• Intro 
• Georgia, Doing the numbers: The operational aesthetics of AI slop
• Hans, Feed them slop: Alignment, attunement, and the affective lure of slopaganda
• Jason, Degenerative AI: AI slop, brainrot, and the gimmick of generative culture
• Mike, Computational Gallerte: Compressions of culture

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

Jesus Christ, my dusty socialist,

“There’s enough sun for everyone,” you state,

your crown chipped like a front tooth

after a bar fight. Behind you a red curtain.

Excerpt of Ephphatha by Spencer Reece

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Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia