Posts tagged: technology

The Neolithic, Capitalism, and Communism

The problem is not technology or nature. The problem is how to organise societies at a global scale.
Cambridge Analytica and the Death of the Voter

The anxiety that swirls around Cambridge Analytica reveals a deeper crisis in the private, individualist conception of democracy.
Global Corporations and "World Music"

The chronic crisis of the record industry is compounded by a constant paradox, apparently inherent in the technology of reproduction, by which music is turned into a commodity only to see it escape.
Beyond Endless Winter: An Interview with Nick Srnicek

A conversation with Nick Srnicek on accelerationism, technology, and political practice.
Like Chopping Onions: At the World’s Largest Security Expo

Tear Gas author Anna Feigenbaum visits Milipol.
Riffing on Reality: Hito Steyerl and the Research Center for Proxy Politics

"Proxy Politics" is both a diagnosis of the modern political terrain and a potential framework and strategy with which to resist it.
Digital Debris

In this excerpt from Duty Free Art, Hito Steyerl on spam; a substantial expression of a period that has elevated superfluity into one of its guiding principles.
Tear Gas and "Atmosphere Governance": An Interview with Anna Feigenbaum

Anna Feigenbaum discusses the history of tear gas as crowd control.
Five Book Plan: Objects and Atmospheres

Anna Feigenbaum, author of Tear Gas, selects five essential books that theorize objects and atmospheres.
Robots and Capitalism (1984)

Tessa Morris-Suzuki's prescient essay — written for New Left Review in 1984 and included in Cutting Edge: Technology, Information, Capitalism and Social Revolution — on the contradictions of automated labor and the commodification of knowledge by software, which responds to claims about automation and value advanced by Ernest Mandel in Late Capitalism.
Notes on Late Exterminism, the Trump Stage of Civilization

Trump’s election has raised the specter of nuclear war in a way unseen since the 1980s, the last time a global mass movement pushed back against the threat of nuclear catastrophe. One of the major intellectual forces behind that mass movement was E.P. Thompson. With the utopian hopes surrounding the ban treaty now meeting the actually existing dystopia of US policy, it is high time for an update to Thompson’s seminal concept of “exterminism.”
[Video:] David Harvey and Evgeny Morozov on Trump, neoliberalism, infrastructure, and "the sharing economy"