If you go to art school or study the humanities then this process of getting turned off after becoming aware of a piece’s “scaffolding” or let’s say... algorithm, usually happens much faster.

The first thing that happened to me was I became aware that there is a production quality bubble in commercial media that keeps most people sealed in and once that popped I got more and more interested in obscure art related films, music, scenes, etc. like the things you would find on ubu.com.

A lot of my old art school friends are still in this edgy mode and they no longer respect any populist media. Somehow I’ve come full circle because I got bored once I started seeing the “scaffolding” in all the radical 20th century and contemporary stuff too.

Now I just try to find the free space where people are developing something new and involve myself somehow either as an early spectator or a participant.

To put it simply, if you start watching Netflix as an anthropologist then you might enjoy the scaffolding once again.