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Both Marazzi and Sennett point out that the disintegration of stable working patterns was in part driven by the desires of workers – it was they who, quite rightly, did not wish to work in the same factory for forty years. In many ways, the left has never recovered from being wrong-footed by Capital’s mobilization and metabolization of the desire for emancipation from Fordist routine.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Joselit writes that “Duchamp used the category of art to liberate materiality from commodifiable form; **the NFT deploys the category of art to extract private property from freely available information.”**
The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are)
paletten.net
As ever, the problem with a gadget isn't what it does: it's who it does it *for* and who it does it *to*. There are plenty of benefits from being a centaur – lots of ways that automation can help workers. But the only path to AI profitability lies in *reverse* centaurs, automation that turns the human in the loop into the crumple-zone for a robot:
Humans Are Not Perfectly Vigilant
Cory Doctorow
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