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Consider that the internet has become essential for social participation, that the internet is now saturated with commerce, and that commerce is now subordinated to surveillance capitalism.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
This feels eerily like a hostage holding up yesterday's newspaper to prove they are actively in danger. Perhaps a premonition.
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Maggie Appleton
As Marx and Engels themselves observed in The Communist Manifesto, [Capital] has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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