• Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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      4 years ago

      Palantir is a Surveillance Capitalism company. Foucault, among other things, talked about the Panopticon, a theoretical prison in which the prisoners' behavior is controlled because they know they could be watched at any moment but are never sure when they actually ARE being watched.

      There's probably more to say about Foucault here, I don't know a LOT about him, but that's the bit that jumped out at me

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Pick it yourself here:

      www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/primer-blast/

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/

      His big thing was looking at how social control happens in the modern world, especially how people are made docile through social pressure and the constant possibility of surveillance. Largely informed by his time in mental hospitals and as a Maoist political prisoner in France.