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Not only “Big Brother is watching you” (a virtual Panopticon), and “Big Brother is selling your data and pitching you products” ([surveillance capitalism](https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/) writ large), but also “Big Brother’s model permeates the texts that you read and write; inscribes your thought process; monitors your keystrokes; and predicts your every utterance by making *your* patterns *its* patterns and *its* pattern *yours*.”
Now the Humanities Can Disrupt “AI”
Lauren M. E. Goodlad & Samuel Baker
Is AI “horrifying” because it reminds us yet again that what we already take to be real is a brittle construct, that human memory is not computer memory, that the social relations necessary to sustain meanings across time can’t be automated?
The Egg of Experience
Rob Horning
But the ‘free market’ idea introduces into government a sanction of an inequality that is not implicit in any idea of democratic liberty: namely that the ‘free market’ is freest to those who have the most money, and is not free at all to those with little or no money.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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