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Again, we can talk about why orthodoxically Marxist responses to Foucault may not be oriented towards registering the function of disability within neoliberal capitalism, but that is for another *needed* project.
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already prepared. They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, prechewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so. We may rest assured that they would be glad to find such a way. The ideal industrial food consumer would be strapped to a table with a tube running from the food factory directly into his or her stomach. Perhaps I exaggerate, but not by much.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Machine learning’s optimizations are a kind of abstract utilitarianism, a mode of calculative ordering that results in particular ways of structuring systems. The logic of optimization, which has deep Cold War roots, already underpins our systems of logistics and planning, and the combination of granular data and machine learning opens up the opportunity for it to be used for social problems.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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