Sublime

no more need to have them enforce our contracts.

The argument is with the triumph of technique, with techniques that become sanctified and rule out the possibilities of other ones. Technique, like any other technology, tends to function independently of the system it serves. It becomes autonomous, in the manner of a robot that no longer obeys its master.

Dans la glaciation politique des sciences sociales américaines des années 1950, Wright Mills apparaît en effet comme un franc-tireur, attaquant aussi bien les constructions théoriques pompeuses d’un Talcott Parsons que la division extrême des objets de recherche pratiquée par l’empirisme caractéristique du tournant béhavioriste. Il proclame son att

Comme il a été dit, « les analphabètes du xxie siècle ne seront pas ceux qui ne peuvent lire ni écrire, mais ceux qui ne peuvent apprendre, désapprendre, réapprendre ».

was Julien Benda’s Great Betrayal that helped to clarify the new situation in which the intellectual suddenly holds the whip hand in society.

(Herbert Simon said it best: “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”)

As the opportunity for electronic transactions of all kinds becomes omnipresent, there is no vestige of what used to be everyday life beyond the reach of corporate intrusion. An attention economy dissolves the separation between the personal and professional, between entertainment and information, all overridden by a compulsory functionality of com

Google is to surveillance capitalism what the Ford Motor Company and General Motors were to mass-production–based managerial capitalism. New economic logics and their commercial models are discovered by people in a time and place and then perfected through trial and error. In our time Google became the pioneer, discoverer, elaborator, experimenter,