Brandon Marcus
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Brandon Marcus
... See moreTaylor's moral justification of authenticity ignores that subtle process, within the neoliberal regime, by which the ideas of freedom and self-realization are transformed into vehicles for more efficient exploitation. The neoliberal regime exploits morality. Once it is able to present itself as freedom, domination becomes complete. Authenticity is
... See moreRituals are processes of embodiment and bodily
performances. In them, the valid order and values of a com-
munity are physically experienced and solidified. They
are written into the body, incorporated, that is, physically
internalized. Thus, rituals create a bodily knowledge and
memory, an embodied identity, a bodily connection. А
ritual community is a
6 prompts that turn a chatbot into a fact-checker
Most of us encounter claims faster than we can verify them, which is part of what makes a chatbot useful here: it can help trace a claim back to its origin and flag what's missing along the way.
An important caveat before we start: A chatbot... See more
Hana Lee Goldinsubstack.comOur digital economy has levied a gigantic cognitive tax on news consumers trying to find accurate information. The cost is just too much to bear.
Matt Pearce • You couldn't create a more anti-news internet if you tried
The future of news in the 20th century belonged to Walter Lippmann’s democratic paternalism. The winner-take-all nature of advertising markets, the artificial scarcity of broadcast spectrum space, and the forbidding industrial moats associated with the costs of news production and distribution, gave rise to the era of 20th century mass media, which... See more
You couldn't create a more anti-news internet if you tried
So what exactly was the so-called democratization of media going to accomplish, in terms of the country’s political life? We now know the answer: It was going to widen the gap between the pseudo-environments in which people think and feel and the real environment in which they live and act. It was going to reveal a fundamental paradox of modern... See more
Nicholas Carr • The Myth of the Informed Citizen
We construct our pseudo-environment out of what Lippmann termed stereotypes. When confronted by “the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world,” we have to rely on rules of thumb, intuitive judgments, and other mental shortcuts—heuristics, as cognitive psychologists call them—to make sense of things. We comprehend through intuition... See more