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The structure mirrors what Varoufakis describes as feudal social relations: individuals do not own the digital land (platforms), nor do they control the surplus value generated from their activity. We have become digital serfs, producing value passively and continuously, without ownership or agency.
Hyper-Alienation and the Rage Machine
Modrý Robota
For Derrida, an event truly worthy of the name must be absolutely and completely irruptive, unforeseeable, and incalculable, bordering on incomprehension and surpassing and challenging its own representation, extent, and context.
Hence, an event truly worthy of the name, Derrida says, already lies beyond the domain of the possible, the domain of the possible possibilities. The event is grounded in the impossible itself.
Derrida on the Event: Singular/Iterable
https://that-which.com/author/hai-ak/
For a crisis to be ‘fascism-inducing’ or ‘fascism-producing’ (Eley, 2016, cited in Malm and The Zetkin Collective, 2021) it has to appear to be beyond the capacity of traditional systems to solve. But this is only one side of the equation; the other is the decision of the dominant social class to invoke fascistic forces as a way to preserve their existing power.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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