Here are my thoughts on the US election, and on the challenges it presents us, in four parts. 1. The informational catastrophe, and the sadness of it For all the reasons to be dismayed about these elections, there’s one that saddens me most. It’s that all the people (me among them) who’ve given their professional […]
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No common (sense) world
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged A. N. Whitehead, common sense, common world, conspiracy culture, cultural civil war, digital media, faith, Isabelle Stengers, media ecosystems, neoliberalism, social consensus, the long revolution, Trump, Trumpism on November 12, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
The information coup
Posted in Media ecology, tagged Anomalies, conspiracies, conspiracy culture, digital media, epistemic crisis, Facebook, Google, Googlization, infodemic, information civilization, information war, media ecology, media politics, mediasphere, New York Times, Shoshana Zuboff, social media, surveillance capitalism on January 31, 2021 | 1 Comment »
Shoshana Zuboff’s analysis of “The Coup We Are Not Talking About,” published in today’s Sunday New York Times, is an essential follow-up to her book Surveillance Capitalism, applying that book’s analysis to the situation we are living through. This other coup is the “epistemic coup” which, she writes, “proceeds in four stages”:
Streaming media’s environmental impact
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged carbon footprint, data centers, digital media, ecological footprint, environmental impact, industrial ecology, Laura Marks, media ecology, Media+Environment, pedagogical media, streaming media on October 16, 2020 | 3 Comments »
Cross-posted with the EcoCultureLab blog. Media+Environment has just published another article in its “States of Media and Environment” series, and this one should be of broad interest to environmental educators, media scholars, and environmentally concerned media users. “Streaming Media’s Environmental Impact” draws attention to an unpopular but inescapable issue: the adverse environmental effects of streaming media. […]
We are surveillance capital stock
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged behavioral surplus, books, cognitive capitalism, communicative capitalism, digital media, disembedding, information civilization, information economy, instrumentarian power, Karl Polanyi, knowledge economy, media ecology, Polanyi, Shoshana Zuboff, stages of capitalism, surveillance capitalism, The Great Transformation on June 29, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I’m reading Shoshana Zuboff’s widely lauded The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, which some have placed alongside Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as essential reading for understanding today’s global economy. The big conceptual idea I find most useful in it is its insistence that we are in the midst of a “fourth great transformation” […]
More conspiratology: the internet as monochord & storm machine
Posted in Media ecology, Spirit matter, tagged affect, affective contagion, alt-left, alt-right, alternative health, Anomalies, anti-vaccination movement, anti-vaxx, complementary health, conspiracies, conspiracy culture, conspiracy theories, conspiratistics, conspiratology, conspirology, digital media, disinformation, emotional contagion, emotional surge protection, George Floyd, George Floyd protests, illiberalism, infowar, media ecology, media politics, mediasphere, monochord, New Age culture, New Age movement, populism, post-truth, QAnon, Robert Fludd, social media, Trump, Wu Ming Foundation on June 2, 2020 | 5 Comments »
At a time when the U.S. itself appears on the brink of collapse — with riots in the streets, a pandemic crippling the country’s heath care system and wreaking havoc on its economy, a president tweeting out nods of recognition to his QAnon fan base and hinting at “the Storm” that is coming — the sense-making apparatus of digital media is rife with opportunities for disinformational entrepreneurs to make headway in various directions. […]
The internet is like a huge instrument — a hyper-complex, Robert Fluddian monochord, that works by allowing for an infinity of connections through which flow the sounds and vibrations of human emotional and affective contagion. When protests erupt across the country over the senseless killing of a black man in Minneapolis, the time scale in which large-scale action occurs speeds up and become affect-driven time, not a time in which collective deliberation is really possible. This means that informational, and therefore “disinformational,” bursts into that monochord become all the more powerful.
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