Morlock Elloi on Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:00:34 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> When the Party becomes a Platform


The deep servility of so called intellectuals towards underlying propositions of the fingerish ... I mean digital is fascinating (while paying lip service to 'outrage' regarding ephemeral surface effects.)

Their superficial understanding of machine systems, and latching onto popular mythologies, indicate that they are probably also totally clueless when passionately talking about politics, finance, etc.



On 12/12/18, 08:04, carlo von lynX wrote:
In an utterly naive way from what I see.. even leaders
of the new left surrender to the totalitarian grasp that
Silicon Valley has on digital workfare, completely
forgetting how life was before Google and how each of
those surveillance tools still has non-surveillance
alternatives that political movements should use in
order to not make themselves completely prone to
manipulation. This article by Yanis Varoufakis proposes
a completely unrealistic solution to the Silicon Valley
problem while accepting centralized mass control as an
inevitability.

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