An AOF editorial on platforms, hypocrisy, and building art that survives extraction.
1) The honest contradiction
We can’t live off-grid. Even this sentence will probably end up on a corporate server framed by ads, nudged by an algorithm that knows more about our habits than our closest friends. Posting this on Instagram or anywhere else is hypocritical if purity is the metric. But purity is the wrong metric. Survival is.