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When I refer to capitalism, I’m talking about a specific relationship between capital and labor, in which private individuals who have money are able to profit off the effort of others.
Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
newyorker.com
In his crucial book The Origins of Unhappiness, Smail describes how the marks of class are designed to be indelible. For those who from birth are taught to think of themselves as lesser, the acquisition of qualifications or wealth will seldom be sufficient to erase – either in their own minds or in the minds of others – the primordial sense of worthlessness that marks them so early in life.
Good for Nothing - Mark Fisher
libcom.org
But when the world’s experience is converted to data, labeled, and assimilated in a predictive model, this forgetting itself is, in a sense, forgotten. This is because the model’s effectiveness at producing results, at making decisions, comes to supplant the forgotten material, the “other aspects” that situate experience socially, the embodied attentiveness to the world that constitutes our knowledge of it.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
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