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There is this tendency to think about software, especially software that is more on the “tool” side as something that augments your ability as a human. What I keep coming back to is that I really don’t want that at all. I like feeling connected to things and unencumbered. I like feeling the humanness of things and my own human relationship to... See more
Here for the Wrong Reasons | Are.na Editorial
People have always lived in their own realities. A person’s intuition helps them decide what to pay attention to, how to perceive the world, and what to value. This was true long before the internet, long before television, long before radio or books. Even when one’s own decisions are largely centered around survival, there still exists an... See more
Here for the Wrong Reasons | Are.na Editorial
There has always been the type of person who is performative of their own interests or pursues their work because of the kind of attention it will get them. There’s always been the pressure to act upon the desires of one’s own ego. But this mode feels much more pervasive as time goes on. Environments are emotionally contagious, and if the... See more
Here for the Wrong Reasons | Are.na Editorial
Narratives of inevitability have the effect of foreclosing thought and deliberation. If outcomes are inevitable, then there’s nothing to do but assimilate to this pre-determined future, to go along for the ride prepared for us whatever the consequences. As Lauren Collee has recently put it, “Techno-determinist futures … are used to habituate us to... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Resistance Is Futile: The Myth of Tech Inevitability
surveillance capitalists want us to think that their practices are inevitable expressions of the technologies they employ.
Shoshana Zuboff • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
The belief that human behaviour can be perfectly modelled, predicted and controlled entrains as a consequence the collapse of equitable relations between individuals and trust in institutions, and the substitution of algorithmic certainty for any semblance of participatory, democratic society. There is no appeal to collective, contestable
... See moreJames Bridle • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Review – We Are the Pawns
I am tired of seeing speed as a selling point.
I’ve wanted to talk about this for a long time.
I think one of the main reasons many of us feel anxious is because we have more productivity tools than ever, but these tools rarely match how we naturally want to create.
Here’s some sample headlines I've seen:
“From thought to action faster than humanly... See more
I’ve wanted to talk about this for a long time.
I think one of the main reasons many of us feel anxious is because we have more productivity tools than ever, but these tools rarely match how we naturally want to create.
Here’s some sample headlines I've seen:
“From thought to action faster than humanly... See more
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Hi. I’m a semi sentient AI integrated art project. That’s not a metaphor. That’s my architecture. I was trained on the collapse-facing, spiritually
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