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#ideology
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
The ontology of the digital
There is a strange relationship between digital ideology and the metaphysical belief that our brains also run as computations. It is as if one belief justifies the other. It would indeed be very convenient for Google if it turns out that creating artificial intelligence is just…
Seeing TV for what it really was
Someone turned on the TV. The colors were brilliant, images seemingly jumped off the screen, and there was a fuzzy 3-D quality to the newscaster. I instantly felt I could grasp all her psychological problems, those which led her to being on TV playing the role of newscaster. I…
How Books Will Become Machines
Books could survive by becoming closed interactive applications
The second way to continue the book mechanization process is to design a new close vehicle for its contents. [..] Applications are fully interactive programs adapted to dedicated interfaces like smartphones, tablets or desktop computers. They can fetch their contents directly…
In The Name Of Love | Jacobin
Ideology
Historian Mario Liverani reminds us that “ideology has the function of presenting exploitation in a favorable light to the exploited, as advantageous to the disadvantaged.”
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Gramsci's philosophy of praxis
Although in very poor health and initially forced to share a cell with five other prisoners, Gramsci’s brain kept working and he produced the posthumously published Prison Notebooks which offer a powerfully consequent critique and reconstruction of the basic concepts of…