Re: <nettime> techno-economic paradigm shifts ( was Armin Medosch: The > Rise .....) (Felix Stalder)

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Hi Felix et al,

There's an interesting talk 2nite at TU Berlin w/ Tante and Malte Engeler on "Fascist AI" that we think captures the " techno-economic paradigm shifts " ... perhaps a little more directly.

https://www.newpractice.net/post/malte-engeler-tante

Excerpts:

"For our next Loops session, we dive into how technology, ideology, and power collide in today’s digital landscape. This time, we’re looking at the disturbing ties between AI, capitalism, and fascist politics, alongside the libertarian fantasies that continue to shape our technological narratives.

Together, they reveal how technology is never neutral, often acting as a vessel for deeper political forces, from market extraction to fascist tendencies. "

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The XLt group would go a little further ( back ) and say fascism didn't just arrive now w/ the latest wave of market tech envangelism.
We should keep in mind that the new biblical-golden-shower-scale of AI Industry + redemption promises is also covering their deep criminal tracks of all that highly unethical plunder ( 1. of spying and scraping all the world's data AND 2. all the raw materials that requires to keep the engines on ).  

We would go further back to say the faith-plus-fanaticism inherent in the hyper-industrialist + krapitalist accelerated "Technosphere" is what laid the fascist serpent's egg.

We discuss the origins briefly here... ( utilizing a sharp piece by The Ecologist’s Herbert Girardet to give the backround. )

"Time To Stop Cuddling with The Technosphere Cannibalism !?
Biosphere vs. Technosphere - Part 1 of ? "

https://xlterrestrials.substack.com/p/time-to-stop-cuddling-with-the-technosphere

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It's a rough sketch beginning for a possible series of pieces which will dive further into our dissent w/ all the informative, but ultimately distracting, years of the Anthropocene framings. And perhaps what strategies might be like ( beyond just alt + tactical tech ) to reclaim all our radical pluriversal futures.  


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We attended the launch for Medosch's book and it was inspiring... to be reminded of all the well-intended grassroots networking commons attempts. 

But our thinking has been - for some time - that until a commons of the Biosphere ( praxis ) is somehow restored ( and prioritized ), the Hyper-GuineaPigdom of the Technospheres will continue down their fascist paths... as the tech infrastructure / markets play for domination as a corporate-state endgame, distracting us from better communnity strategies to attain Terrestrial Sustainability For ALL. 

Since these infrastructures - as they are currently designed, around the inefficiently 24/7-access/adddictions of personalized consumer devices ... inevitably expands the resource wars and perpetuates the sacrifice zones, like in the Congo ... and now the new cursed Lithium lands... and wherever all that escalating server farm energy-suck ( and potable-water-suck ) is supposedly going to come from.

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the XLt 2 cents...
taking a stab at more grounded cultures of resistance + solidarities.

p.




> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: techno-economic paradigm shifts ( was Armin Medosch: The
>       Rise .....) (Felix Stalder)


> Because under the worst of circumstances, we are witnessing an
attempt  to launch a new techno-economic paradigm, based on AI and
its applications in automated production, logistics, management,
spectacle and war.

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Yet what today's stock-market peaks also represent is something
like a risk of last resort, an investor appetite born of cynical
desperation. The thing is, this really feels like the last possible boom, before the civilizational decay that everyone sees coming



> These two things really go together, at least in the US, it seems to me as an observer from a distance. There is a clear attempt to transform the industrial base, most explicitly in the military because it plays such a central role in the US-economy and industrial policy.


Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, stated this very directly, just a few days after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in an open letter to European leaders.


"An embrace of the relationship between technology and the state, between disruptive companies that seek to dislodge the grip of entrenched contractors and the federal government ministries with funding, will be required for Europe and its allies to remain strong enough to defeat the threat of foreign occupation."
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