One of the paradoxes of digital culture is that its forward-looking innovations are linked to pre-modern times. With the dating platforms and their proposed “matches”, the finding of each other after 250 years of self-sufficient romantic love is again handed over to an external authority, as it was the church or the heads of the family until the middle of the 18th century. As Timon Beyes and Claus Pias have noted, the affirmative like culture of social media does not reflect the disputes of the bourgeois public, but rather the confirmation rituals of the courtly sphere. And the much-discussed agency of the “algorithms”, the exact functioning of which is not even familiar to the programmers, places an arcanum of data processing at the center of world design that can compete with the opacity of absolutist monarchies.
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