Re: <nettime> two 'meta' notes (was Re: rage against the machine)

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

While I mentioned earlier the transfer of agency from humans and 
deflection of rage to inanimate objects, this points to something 
equally fundamental: exploitation and crime by proxy. Machines are 
propagandized as entities by themselves. The debate starts to turn 
around machines and their idiosyncrasies, safely squeezing out the real 
issues.

It's like your town is being terrorized by armed bandits, and wise 
heads, philosophers, media, politicians are talking about types of 
bullets, different kinds of injuries they cause, the nozzle velocity, 
construction of guns, whether barrels are threaded or not, gun 
manufacturers, cost of guns, dangers that guns pose, should 
fragmentation bullets be allowed, etc.

Everything except mentioning the bandits and gallows poles.

On 3/23/19, 10:00, tbyfield wrote:
> More generally, entire swaths of current 'technology' debates — about
> automation and IoT, 'adversarial' this and that, how advertising is
> subverting democracy, etc, etc – are naive historical reenactments of
> front-page debates from the mid-1950s. Lots of factors enable that
> naivete, and voguish talk about 'complexity' is one of them. It's not an
> accident that complexity became a pop phenomenon starting in the

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