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Almost everyone I talk to tells me about people they have lost “down the rabbit hole”—parents, siblings, best friends, as well as formerly trusted intellectuals and commentators. People, once familiar, who have become unrecognizable. Altered. It began to feel as if the forces that have destabilized my world are part of an expansive web of forces that are destabilizing our larger world—and that understanding these forces could hold a key to getting to firmer ground.
Deleuze says that Control societies are based on debt rather than enclosure; but there is a way in which the current education system both indebts and encloses students.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Facial recognition technology doesn’t simply “recognize faces”; it reconfigures the idea of privacy and distributes new kinds of power, risk, opportunity, and vulnerability across society.
Dave Karpf describes this kind of thinking as “technological pragmatism,” which involves recognizing that technologies are “catalysts of change” and that “the direction of that change is determined through design choices, and through the social forces of existing institutional arrangements, financial incentives, and power structures.”
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