FUCKTHEWORLDDOWN [none/use name]

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  • The notion of computation currently dominant is that it is an information management tool that helps to reveal the inner workings of nature whether in the analysis of cognitive function, markets, or galaxy formation: scientific tools reveal nature’s ontological character.

    Simulation helps us understand reality. Information science, like other sciences, and like “reality itself”, is presumed to pertain beyond the merely social, even if “reality itself” is a simulation.

    In the thought experiment that is The World Computer, the aim is to understand that this thinking of information of being everywhere—and thus, as everywhere legible, at least in principle, is a direct extension of the colonial project and carries with it the legacies of slavery, wage labor, heteropatriarchy, and proletarianization...




  • FUCKTHEWORLDDOWN [none/use name]tomarxism*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    don’t be fooled by the fancy accommodations and sleek ergonomics, the first person shooter interfaces, the health monitors, the VR, the AR, the fetching AI, the panoply of apparent choices

    and don’t be fooled the the apparently nontechnical conditions of global slums, forced migrations, detention centers, and camps

    on the planetary factory floor, rendered n-dimensional by the world computer and its screens, we encounter the unprecedented extension of the colonization of space, time, discourse, mind and the imagination by means of algorithms that operationalize historically produced categories of social difference as so many inflections of class