The pornification of everything | The Gray Area

Sean’s guest today is Daniel Kolitz, author of a remarkable Harper’s story on “gooning.”

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They talk about this emerging subculture and how it reflects back on the larger world, from the economics of attention to the rise of short-form everything. Kolitz explains why the Gooniverse isn’t just about porn, how hyperkinetic media rewires our sense of pleasure and patience, and why this is really a story about how society is changing in ways we might not like.

Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Daniel Kolitz, author of The Goon Squad

00:00 Intro
00:56 What in the world is gooning?
09:00 Gooners are distressingly normal
14:26 It scares the hell outta me
22:32 It's like freebasing content
24:36 Is this where the internet was always going?

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