| Morlock Elloi on Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:00:34 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: <nettime> When the Party becomes a Platform |
Their superficial understanding of machine systems, and latching onto popular mythologies, indicate that they are probably also totally clueless when passionately talking about politics, finance, etc.
On 12/12/18, 08:04, carlo von lynX wrote:
In an utterly naive way from what I see.. even leaders of the new left surrender to the totalitarian grasp that Silicon Valley has on digital workfare, completely forgetting how life was before Google and how each of those surveillance tools still has non-surveillance alternatives that political movements should use in order to not make themselves completely prone to manipulation. This article by Yanis Varoufakis proposes a completely unrealistic solution to the Silicon Valley problem while accepting centralized mass control as an inevitability.
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