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There is a kind of toxic indifference that seems to have spread through Western societies. Life itself is treated with a kind of shrugging fatalism — especially those of the vulnerable. It is literally valued less than a night out at the pub by much of society. The attitude of toxic indifference is what the West seems to share in common now, and that is why it has been brought to its knees by Covid.

How the West Got Covid So Wrong

umair haque

Corporations flooding the zone with propaganda about the inevitability of superhuman intelligence or the current capacity of their products to "think" are, ultimately, part of a long lineage of technologies concerned with cultivating social control.

AI, Slavery, Surveillance, and Capitalism

Substack

This means, argues Kant, that the beauty experience is like the operating system on top of which all kinds of cool political apps are sitting, apps such as democracy. Nonviolently coexisting with a being that isn’t you is a pretty good basis for that.

All Art Is Ecological

Timothy B. Morton

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