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Byrne Hobart • The Promise and Paradox of Decentralization
... See moreFilterworld consist of one fundamental, unavoidable reality: never in human history have so many people experienced the same things, the same pieces of content disseminated instantly through the feeds, to our individual screens. Every consequence flows from that fact.
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To resist Filterworld, we must become our own curators once more and take
the attention resistance—a loosely organized movement of individuals who use high-tech tools and strict operating procedures to extract value from the products of the digital attention economy, while avoiding falling victim to compulsive use.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
The reduction of reality to information and humans to genotypes all-too-conveniently dovetails with capitalism’s imperative to render everything into a suitable form for the marketplace. Everything is data, and everything has a price, and everything can scale.
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Kids will not believe me when I say this, but people didn’t always absorb their “content” by way of mysterious algorithmic black magic on endlessly-scrolling crack feeds. We used to type web addresses into our browsers, and actually visit our favorite sites. This, going to “www dot college shitpost dot com” or whatever, was itself considered a
... See moreÀ dix-neuf ans, une de ses créations l’a rendu frêle millionnaire. À l’abri, il s’est méfié peu à peu de son seul pays, Internet. Il a tenté de nous alerter : derrière le miroir aux alouettes se joue une bataille de tranchées pour ce qu’il reste de la liberté, de notre capacité à penser. L’économie de marché a massacré relations, nature et air
... See moreFlore Vasseur • Ce qu'il reste de nos rêves (LITTERATURE (NO) (French Edition)
Alana Newhouse • Everything Is Broken
The more value is extracted, the fewer opportunities people have to create and exchange value through any means other than participating in the systems of domination and control that have robbed them in the first place. Locals can resist by adopting the violent tactics of their oppressors, but this risks infecting them with the same sensibilities.
... See moreDouglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
