Musik eller støj: Spotifys æstetiske hegemoni

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Abstract

In our global contemporary moment beset with economic and political crises, the digital platform has emerged as a prevailing economic and cultural form that strongly impacts the current direction and order of digitally mediated society. Siphoning money and data from their position in medias res of global digital networks, the most powerful platforms approach monopoly power and gain the capacity to impose their own logics to a multitude of sectors that rely on digital infrastructure to distribute goods, services and interactions. More radically, as globally distributed infrastructures, platforms gain the capacity to decide what qualifies as a valid existence to be mediated at all. The power of platforms therefore implies power over being, ontological power. In this contribution, we conceptualize the power to shape interactions and to decide over digital being as platform power. We will explore what platform power consists in, how it was gained and what consequences it has for cultural production in contemporary society. We do this specifically by analyzing the platform power of Spotify which is a key node for the digital distribution of music. We show how Spotify’s platform power manifests itself as an aesthetic hegemony that influences music production in the 21st century. As a guarantor of sonic and cultural order, Spotify intervenes in the very being of music by imposing a logic that differentiates and decides between what is music and what is noise.
OriginalsprogDansk
Artikelnummer2
TidsskriftK&K - Kultur og Klasse
Vol/bind52
Udgave nummer138
Sider (fra-til)39-64
Antal sider26
StatusUdgivet - 2024

Emneord

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet
  • platform
  • platformsmagt
  • Spotify
  • musik
  • orden
  • hegemoni

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