Re: <nettime> When the Party becomes a Platform

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

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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