With apologies for cross posting -
Jernej and I are pleased to share the Cultural Commons special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies
on 'Brainrot, AI Slop and the Enshittification of the Internet,' which has now been released in the online first section of the journal.
The special issue takes these terms seriously as vernacular concepts for making sense of contemporary platform cultures, particularly in the wake of generative AI. The contributions approach these transformations through a range of perspectives, examining the
affective experience of doomscrolling, exhaustion and abjection; the labour, political economy and environmental infrastructures of generative AI; the emergence of AI “slopaganda”; and the strange aesthetic and operational logics of brainrot and slop.
Please find links to the individual pieces below, with thanks to the editors and our contributors!
