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Exacerbating this hegemony, immediacy animates even contemporary critical theory that now sidles too close to its objects, embracing rather than disarticulating dominant logics. Labeling this everythingness is a gesture toward reestablishing theoretical distance, though initially grasping the problem is tricky—a list-y, circuitous, roving vibeology.
Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism
Anna Kornbluh
If you don’t adjust its settings, your smartphone is tracking your journeys for Google or Apple. Google and Meta are collecting and monetising all the data they can, and while you can opt out of some of their surveillance, and that of most of the websites you visit, the default setting of the commercial internet is the capture and commodification of your life.
In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Rebecca Solnit
It's executives and their shareholders attempting to grow company profits, dividends and their own compensation by introducing a new form of automation that not only justifies cost-cutting, but operates by lessening the economic value of the human-authored works that are used for 'AI training', while fracturing worker solidarity by encouraging them to collaborate with genAI "copilots" rather than each other.
Epic Boss Tim Sweeney Is Right to Call genAI a Political Topic - It's a Mechanism of Class War
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