Technology
Surveillance Capitalism
AI
"Rich streams of digital exhaust, with all their rich predictive behaviour signals, are routinely being collected by the social media platforms we contemporarily engage in, and commodified for profit; a phenomenon known as Surveillance Capitalism"
Capitalism
capitalist society engages a full pedagogical machinery to manufacture the sort of political subjects and moral bodies that are capable of succeeding within capitalism.
Fashion/Clothes
GAFA Technocracy
Social media
These economic, and communicative flows between nations has ushered socio-cultural, and economic homogeneity on a global scale, and a transition of political and economic power from governments to corporations
Brands programming us that to succeed in our capitalistic society you need that handbag
Echo Chamber
Perhaps we’ve become trapped in echo chambers of our own making – wrapping ourselves in an intellectually impenetrable layer of like minded friends, web pages and social media feeds.
Transition of power from governments to technology companies
Cambridge Analytica influencing the election for Donald Trump and Brexit having huge geo-political repercussions
The ‘echo chamber’ highlights and purports the same views, while relevant voices are actively discredited.
Ethics of technology
For the "big 5" companies (Amazon, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook), the main data-collection part of their business appears to be based on deception exploiting human weakness, furthering procastination, generating addiction, and manipulation
Privacy
These thought silos or echo chambers deepens pre-existing fault lines in an already tumultuous and confrontational political atmosphere in countries such as the US today. It used to be that we all had ‘the news’ – a common epistemological anchor of sorts to organise debate around. Now that we all have our own news, it makes debate increasingly, and almost irreversibly, incommensurable. As if we were speaking different languages
AI increases both the possibilities of intelligent data collection and the possibilities for data analysis
commodifies intrusions into our
The work of technology comapines largely underpinned the rise of globalisation, and as a byproduce have become dangerously influential in manipulating human behaviour
Globalisation
transition of political and economic power from governments to corporations
Governments
Communism (utilitarianism)- Well-intentioned political philosophy based on equality
equality-based ideologies such as communism or utilitarianism have historically failed to realised their intended outcomes as they are applied to real world scenario
Classic liberalism
William Hobbs put it, "the drunkard in the gutter is exacty where he ought to be"
equality
Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao Zedong - whose behaviour was illustrative of a utilitarian calculus wherein violence was justified in the name of achieving a socialist utopia
Modern liberalism
Meritocracy
Neo liberalism/‘Free market’ ‘laissez faire’ Capitalism
Meritocracies provide an impetus for competition and enterprises and these key facets of modern western economies is one of the reasons they have been so successful in performing better with respect to important living indexes such as healthcare and education
Marxist philosophy was intended as a genuine attempt at social utopia, however, as it is applied to the real world it consistently fails to achieve its inteded outcomes.
To get a sense of this you need only glance over a list of communist and socialist regimes (the soviet union, or pre soviet Russia in which people were eating grass for sustenance, Cambodia) in contrast to neo-liberal econoies such as the US and Australia.
Predicated on
it instils in us the desire or the idea that if we pursue material ends and success in being a bad bitch or whatever instagram tells you to be you will find fulfill me
Megpolies (vast corporate entities - google, apple, meta etc) operate in democratic countries but are unelected and are therefore unimpeachable : they are not just too big to fail, but too big to control and therefore too big to resist.
Westernisation (transmission and reception of European ideas, technology, lifestyles, institutions throughout the globe)
Colonialism: the contradiction between liberal ideals and colonial practice became particularly acute, as the dominion of Europe over the rest of the world reached its zenith.
Language
Legitimacy
Racism
systemic oppression
the civilized white men at
the center and in charge
the capacity of language to colonize; language is not just a means of communication but also a carrier of culture. Speaking the colonizer’s language reproduces the colonizer’s values, he charges – a point not lost on communities like the the Maori of New Zealand, who have made language rights a hallmark of their sovereignty movements.
a monoculture of conformity
Human nature/nurture
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Economically
Capitalism
Politically
Democracy
Violence
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used as a justification for racism
changing the very tapestry of
Human nature Vs Nurture
Weaponizing of human nature as a tool of
Colonialism
there are very aspects of human life where we give ourselves over to the conditions or to the natural course of things, we are habitual interveners.
taking away our capacity to be
bored/boredom
passage of time is important to confront because it brings forth our sense of finitude, insignifiance and the importance of humanity in the way we life
the era of smart phone is the most exteme manifestation (eliminating boredom) ability to to source a stimulus at any given moment.
being on social media imposes a certain logic on the way that we think and expectations of ourselves.
the celebritification of journalist and journalism
Journalism
social media is a place where celebrities think they are journalist and journalist think they are celebrities → vocation of journalist is not something that should be directed at any kind of celebrity especially reporting
toxic people
Cancel culture
harpers magazine where renowned authors and academics across the ideological spectrum complaint with a complaint about a “intolerance for opposing views”, vogue for public shaming and ostracism and a tendency to dissolve complex policy issue in a blinding moral certainty.
we don’t even recognise the extent to which we have this embedded axiom of conquoring limits then respecting them. → relationship to death and aging endless quest for immortality (more and more people are living past 100 because of advancements in medicine)
there seems to be an unquestioned desire for us to extent life indefinitely if we can without thinking what that means and whether that is desirable → if we can do it we should do it and of course we can attitude
we have been raging against our condition of creaturelyness and what we substituted that for is the desireto be a
Politics