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But for generative models there are no remainders. They can’t feel their way toward a meaning. They can’t have aesthetic ideas or make artworks in the sense that Bernstein means, so they can’t redistribute artistic capability. They don’t create works that figure freedom, or exemplify, in Bernstein’s words, “people making sense in ways that follow no existing rules of sense-making.” They don’t elude reification or hold out utopian promise that something can exceed exchange value.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
According to Marxist economist Christian Marazzi, the switch from Fordism to post-Fordism can be given a very specific date: October 6, 1979. It was on that date that the Federal Reserve increased interest rates by 20 points, preparing the way for the ‘supply-side economics’ that would constitute the ‘economic reality’ in which we are now enmeshed.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Yet in North America, raising the alarm about the fact that we have outsourced the management of our critical informational pathways to algorithms run by for-profit companies, working hand in glove with governments, somehow became the terrain of the Bannonite political right, which points to a dangerous ceding of ideological territory.
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