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“But maybe your real job is shopping…” Sleepwalk through stock footage. Life as documentary. Soundtrack of horror movie score: ambient electronica, bubblegum nostalgia and **** love songs. Everything becomes visual metaphor: blackbirds, barcodes and birthday candles; Big Pharma pick & mix; lipstick ritual; pigeon superstition; fraying flags of fading empires; migratory patterns of shopping trolleys; special offers; fantastic prizes. Worker bees are vanishing - they all want to be queens - and our hives overflow with honey, but are empty and dead. We got infected with aspiration, with individualism. Generically unique career consumers: remember when you were more than your credit rating, more than your demographic, more than your market-driven self-diagnosis?
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Dec 8, 2018
Dec 8, 2018 at 5:44 PM UTC
We Are Product
“But maybe your real job is shopping…” Sleepwalk through stock footage. Life as documentary. Soundtrack of horror movie score: ambient electronica, bubblegum nostalgia and **** love songs. Everything becomes visual metaphor: blackbirds, barcodes and birthday candles; Big Pharma pick & mix; lipstick ritual; pigeon superstition; fraying flags of fading empires; migratory patterns of shopping trolleys; special offers; fantastic prizes. Worker bees are vanishing - they all want to be queens - and our hives overflow with honey, but are empty and dead. We got infected with aspiration, with individualism. Generically unique career consumers: remember when you were more than your credit rating, more than your demographic, more than your market-driven self-diagnosis?
nico-reznick
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Dec 8, 2018
Dec 8, 2018 at 5:44 PM UTC
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