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Is there life after ‘big data’?

Posted in Politics, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Big data + authoritarian governance = techno-totalitarianism. At least that’s the equation we’re most familiar with, and the route that appears to be being laid out in Xi’s China, according to this lengthily researched New York Times piece. (To be fair, the authors only use “techno-authoritarianism,” and the titular and subtitular “-totalitarianism” gloss appears to […]

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The dogs of the universal image machine

Posted in Music & soundscape, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 22, 2021 | 1 Comment »

I’ve written before of the ways that contemporary media, with their recording/archiving and modeling/projection functions, enable a simultaneous opening up of the past and the future, even as they leave us dependent on them so that our own capacities for memory and prognostication fail when our media fail. As we continue to build a universal […]

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Mob politics, killer selfies, and the future of social media: an ecotopian perspective

Posted in Cultural politics, Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 10, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Two points of social media use call for more attention as we make sense of this week’s events at the U. S. Capitol. 1) Videos and selfies from Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rallies are circulating online and making it easier to identify those who participated in the attempted coup at the Capitol. Images created and […]

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