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As privatisation reforms in the National Health Service continued apace, and as the Blair regime raised (and threatened to further raise) the university tuition fees they had first introduced in 1998, there was a strong sense of decline and fall in British culture — especially among younger people — which was nonetheless offset and obscured by a housing-market bubble and a seemingly robust economy which guaranteed a decent standard of living for many older professionals (though not, as we will see, those in the increasingly besieged public sector).
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
The latest wave of AI has come to prominence in the period following the 2008 financial crash, and its ability to optimize rationing at scale readily fits in with austerity policies based on scarcity.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
The sharpened carnage of Israel’s anaesthetic violence circulates most profusely through a panoply of digital technologies, carrying the colonial project forward by bringing ever more networked waves of ruin down upon the colonized. Israel prides itself on its advanced surveillance technologies, which aspire to document and informatically capture each and every particle of the territories it occupies, aiming to informatically integrate and thus *make sense* of what it desolates within its colonial apparatuses.
Anaesthetic Violence
illwill.com
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