Jan 15, 2024: Ben Grosser, artist and creator of Minus, a better social network
Show Notes
• Abour our guest: Ben Grosser is an artist focused on the cultural, social, and political effects of software. He’s a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• bengrosser.com
• Redaction of Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto (Oct 17, 2023) – see also the PDF file
• Stream my dramatic reading of Ben’s redaction (Nov 6, 2023 Techtonic). Sorry I mispronounced Ben’s last name.
• Order of Magnitude (2019): “a massive supercut video of every time Mark Zuckerberg spoke about growth on camera during the first 15 years of Facebook” . . . from “the earliest days of Facebook in 2004 up through Zuckerberg’s compelled appearances before the US Congress in 2018”
• How artist Ben Grosser is cutting Mark Zuckerberg down to size (Guardian, Aug 15, 2021) – about Order of Magnitude
• Deficit of Less (2021): “I mined those same fifteen years of videos looking for every time he said the word ‘less.’ ... his every public utterance of more’s opposite — from age 19 to age 34 — added up to less than 60 seconds of footage.”
• Minus, Ben’s social network that allows 100 posts per user
• bengrosser.com
• Redaction of Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto (Oct 17, 2023) – see also the PDF file
• Stream my dramatic reading of Ben’s redaction (Nov 6, 2023 Techtonic). Sorry I mispronounced Ben’s last name.
• Order of Magnitude (2019): “a massive supercut video of every time Mark Zuckerberg spoke about growth on camera during the first 15 years of Facebook” . . . from “the earliest days of Facebook in 2004 up through Zuckerberg’s compelled appearances before the US Congress in 2018”
• How artist Ben Grosser is cutting Mark Zuckerberg down to size (Guardian, Aug 15, 2021) – about Order of Magnitude
• Deficit of Less (2021): “I mined those same fifteen years of videos looking for every time he said the word ‘less.’ ... his every public utterance of more’s opposite — from age 19 to age 34 — added up to less than 60 seconds of footage.”
• Minus, Ben’s social network that allows 100 posts per user
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- Jan 15, 2024