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Get access to The Backroom Exclusive podcasts by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Mike Watson, a professor & writer who just released a book with Revol Press titled “Hungry Ghosts in the Machine: Digital Capitalism and the Search for Self” Timestamps: 00:00 The Backroom Sneak Peek 07:00 Gabor Mate, Carl Jung, and New Age Spirituality 18:05 Psychics, Astrology, and Algorithms 31:52 Psychedelics and Lacan vs Jung 37:36 Mass Psychosis and The Philosophy of Cope 42:25 The Philosopher vs The Activist 48:10 Adorno, Marcuse and the Student Movement 56:58 The War on Education 01:00:20 AI & The Robotization of Humans 01:05:00 AI-Generated Art 01:14:38 Is Communism Naturally Conservative? Check out Mike Watson's Book: https://www.revolpress.com/hungry-ghosts-in-the-machine Follow Mike on Twitter: https://x.com/_leftaesthetics Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/1DimeOfficial Become a Patron at Patreon.com/OneDime to support the show Outro Music by Karl Casey Be sure to give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating if you get value out of these podcasts!
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Get Mike's latest book here: https://www.revolpress.com/hungry-ghosts-in-the-machine Hungry Ghosts in the Machine will discuss the ways in which social and other digital media utilize nostalgia to heighten anxiety, depression and alienation then offer fleeting cures that ultimately lead to a cycle of longing and, at most, only temporary satiation. It will finally be stated that wellbeing and spiritual practice freed of the compulsive aspect of social media use might form a useful role in a wider movement aimed at fostering healthy communities. Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/ Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are fighting. Like actual fighting. With one challenging the other to a cage fight, there's been an escalation that might see the billionaires enter the UFC octagon for real. If you're wondering why, you're not alone. In this episode of The Quicky, we look at the motivation for these two men to continue publicly baiting each other for a fight, and whether it might be nothing more than a good old fashioned PR stunt. Subscribe to Mamamia GET IN TOUCH Feedback? We're listening! Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au CREDITS Host: Claire Murphy With thanks to: Ben Little: Lecturer in Media and Cultural Politics at the University of East Anglia, and the co author with Goldsmith's University's Dr Alison Winch of the book The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism. Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Kally Borg Audio Producer: Thom LionBecome a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Denně strávíme online v průměru okolo šesti hodin. Podobu prostoru, do kterého přitom vstupujeme, vnímáme většinou jako samozřejmou – jenže samozřejmá není. Internet, který byl kdysi představován jako místo neomezených možností pro svobodnou zábavu i poznání, je dnes konstruován za účelem zisku. Jak přesně v současnosti funguje a jaká je jeho budoucnost? Lze ho ještě zachránit z rukou technologických gigantů? A co nás čeká v metaverzu? V této debatě uslyšíte politoložku zabývající se společenskými dopady technologií Kateřinu Smejkalovou, vizuálního umělce a teoretika počítačových her Leonharda Müllnera a politologa Daniela Leiseganga, který se věnuje digitálním právům a svobodám. Moderovala ji socioložka a digitální antropoložka Marie Heřmanová.Sledujte nás na sociálních sítích Facebook, Instagram, YouTube a Twitter.
Was zeichnet den digitalen Kapitalismus gegenüber anderen Kapitalismen aus und wie könnten Alternativen aussehen? Shownotes Christian Fuchs (Universität Paderborn): https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/institut-fuer-medienwissenschaften/personal-a-z/personen/21863 Christians Homepage: https://fuchsc.uti.at/ Christian auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/fuchschristian Christian auf Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@christianfuchs Triple C – Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society: https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto: https://ia902206.us.archive.org/5/items/psmi_20220127/psmi.pdf Fuchs, Christian. 2023. Der digitale Kapitalismus. Arbeit, Entfremdung und Ideologie im Informationszeitalter. Beltz Juventa.: https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/sozialpaedagogik_soziale_arbeit/produkte/details/49671-der-digitale-kapitalismus-arbeit-entfremdung-und-ideologie-im-informationszeitalter.html Fuchs, Christian. 2023. Adorno and the Media in Digital Capitalism. In. Adorno und die Medien: Kritik, Relevanz, Ethik, edited by Judith-Frederike Popp and Lioudmila Voropai, Kulturverlag Kadmos, pp. 215–36.: https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/details/adorno_und_die_medien Weitere Shownotes David Harvey (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harvey_(Geograph) Theory, Culture and Society: https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/ Amin Ash (University of Cambridge): https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/amin/ Thrift, Nigel. 2004. Knowing capitalism. Sage.: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/knowing-capitalism/book226578 Werner Sombart (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Sombart Joseph Schumpeter (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schumpeter Wolfgang Streeck (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Streeck Fraser, Nancy. 2023. Der Allesfresser. Wie der Kapitalismus seine eigenen Grundlagen verschlingt. Suhrkamp Verlag.: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/nancy-fraser-der-allesfresser-t-9783518029831 Bell, Daniel. 1976. The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society. The Educational Forum, 40:4, 574-579, DOI: 10.1080/00131727609336501.: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131727609336501 Castells, Manuel. 2001. Der Aufstieg der Netzwerkgesellschaft. Das Informationszeitalter Wirtschaft. Gesellschaft. Kultur. Band 1, Leske + Budrich.: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-11322-3 Smythe, Dallas W. 1981. On the audience commodity and its work. In Dependency Road: Communications, Capitalism, Consciousness, and Canada, pp. 22–51. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. [PDF verfügbar]: https://com327fall2016ncsu.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/smythe_audiencecommodity.pdf FIRE – Economy (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_economy Horowitz, Minna & D'Arma, Alessandro (2023). Public Service Media: Bridging Values and Trust. A framework for evaluating and strengthening the trustworthiness of public service media journalism. EBU Media Intelligence Service. Geneva: European Broadcasting Union: https://www.ebu.ch/research/loginonly/report/bridging-value-and-trust Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): https://www.ukri.org/councils/ahrc/ Klaus Unterberger (ORF): https://der.orf.at/unternehmen/who-is-who/tv/unterberger100.html Graham Murdock (Loughborough University London): https://www.lborolondon.ac.uk/about/staff/professor-graham-murdock/ Jürgen Habermas (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas Noam Chomsky (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky International Federation of Journalists (IFJ): https://www.ifj.org/ European Federation of Journalists (EFJ): https://europeanjournalists.org/ Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA): https://www.icrea.cat/en International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR): https://iamcr.org/ Lissabon Strategie – EU eigene Informationsstrategie: https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/lexika/das-europalexikon/177114/lissabon-strategie/ Rosa Luxemburg: https://www.rosalux.de/stiftung/historisches-zentrum/rosa-luxemburg Diaspora – Onlineplattform: https://diasporafoundation.org/ Scholz, Trebor and Schneider, Nathan. 2016. Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperatives. New York/London: OR Books. [PDF verfügbar]: https://worldpece.org/sites/default/files/artifacts/media/pdf/ourstohackandown.pdf Resonate Cooperative: https://resonate.is/the-coop/ de Peuter, Greg., Sandoval Gomez, Marisol, Dreyer, Bianca, & Szaflarska, Aleksandra. 2020. Sharing Like We Mean It: Working Co-operatively in the Cultural and Tech Sectors. [PDF verfügbar]: https://culturalworkersorganize.org/sharing-like-we-mean-it/ RBB-Skandal um Patricia Schlesinger (Der Spiegel): https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/rbb-skandal-um-patricia-schlesinger-gemach-verehrte-jagdgesellschaft-kolumne-a-6f81e7f1-9861-46c5-be80-0f4f75c17972 Fleissner, Peter; Hofkirchner, Wolfgang. In-formatio revisited. Wider den dinglichen Informationsbegriff. In: Informatik Forum 3/1995, 126-131: http://cartoon.iguw.tuwien.ac.at/igw/menschen/hofkirchner/papers/InfoConcept/Informatio_revisited/in-format.pdf Ilya Prigogine (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Prigogine Hermann Haken (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Haken_(Physiker) Humberto Maturana (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_R._Maturana Francisco J. Varela (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_J._Varela Niklas Luhmann (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/Niklas_Luhmann Swann, Thomas. 2020. Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical Politics. Bristol University Press.: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/anarchist-cybernetics Stafford Beer (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/Stafford_Beer Antonio Gramsci (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/Antonio_Gramsci Thematisch angrenzende Future Histories Episoden S02E31 | Thomas Swann on Anarchist Cybernetics: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e31-thomas-swann-on-anarchist-cybernetics/ S02E30 | Philipp Staab zu Anpassung: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e30-philipp-staab-zu-anpassung/ S02E20 | Trebor Scholz on Platform Cooperativism: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e20-trebor-scholz-on-platform-cooperativism/ S02E07 | Simon Schaupp zu Technopolitik von unten: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e07-simon-schaupp-zu-technopolitik-von-unten/ Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Schreibt mir unter office@futurehistories.today Diskutiert mit auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast auf Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories oder auf Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today Keywords: #ChristianFuchs, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #digitalerKapitalismus, #Manifest, #Informationsplattform, #Gesellschaftsform, #Akkumulationsregime, #Kapitalismus, #alternativeMedien, #Medienproduktion, #alternativePlattformen, #öffentlichrechlicherRundfunk, #PublicService, #PublicCommonPartnership, #Vergesellschaftung, #Staat, #Öffentlichkeiten, #Umverteilung, #partizipativeMedien, #partizipativesBudgeting, #Ressourcen, #Cooperativen, #Genossenschaften, #Managerealismus, #Governance, #Entscheidungsmechanismen, #demokratischeSelbstverwaltung, #politischeÖkonomie
In this episode of The Social Ideas Podcast, Dr Lilia Giugni discusses her book, The Threat: How Digital Capitalism is Sexist – And How to Resist.She explains what digital capitalism is and the damage it is causing women around the globe.Cambridge Centre for Social InnovationMasters in Social InnovationFollow the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation on:FacebookInstagram LinkedInTwitterYouTube
Digital Capitalism: From Disciplinary Regime to Surveillance Capitalism. How Digitalization is Changing the Nature of Labor Exploitation. Based on his book, Despertar del sueño tecnológico, Ekaitz Cancela proposes to analyse how the digitization of a financialized economy has been presented as a false solution to the organic crisis of the capitalist system. But there is still a glimmer of hope if we manage to socialize the economic and cultural resources of the 21st century, the data, and the infrastructures they have created. Based on her several articles on digital capitalism, Marga Ferré, Co-President of transform! europe, disputes the concept of the future. We know that every technological revolution produces changes in the mode of production and, therefore, in labor and the social structure, but what we are experiencing exceeds what we know due to its size and speed. In this sense, what impact does technology have on the working class, which today is intensely feminine and migrant? To what extent is primitive accumulation associated with a digitalization that not only to contributes to the further insecurity of precarious workers but also to a new wave of precarization of the middle classes? What opportunities emerge from these upheavals for the feminist, anti-racist and indigenous movements in their struggle against exploitation, oppression, and new forms of colonialism? The presentation is followed by a discussion between the presenters and activists from Gigwatch.
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/70079242 COUNTER-STRIKE became a video game phenomenon. It also served as a laboratory for the exploitation of video game labor and the commodification trends that dominate the games industry and the broader internet today. On this episode, Luke is joined by beloved guest Alex Ross for a wide-ranging discussion of labour and the gaming industry. "How Counter-Strike Helped Shape the Future of Digital Capitalism" by Alex Ross - https://jacobin.com/2022/07/counter-strike-valve-live-service-mods-exploitation
In this episode, Jenny Huberman speaks with Jathan Sadowski, a research fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University and author of Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World. They discuss how digital capitalism is both similar to and different from, previous forms of capital accumulation and domination and they discuss some of the ways smart technologies are used to facilitate these processes. While Sadowski offers a trenchant critique of the way smart technologies are used to enhance corporate technocratic power, he also provides listeners with some paths for resisting, if not reforming capitalism in the digital age.
In this edition, we reproduce the seventh podcast episode from the International Seminar "Automation and Digitalization in Contemporary Capitalism”, an initiative organized by GEPD, Digilabour and NETS. The guest is Sabine Pfeiffer who is a professor at the Friedrich Alexander University, of Erlangen and Nuremberg, where she holds a chair of Sociology, Technology and Labour. In her presentation, Mrs. Pfeiffer discusses topics over her book titled "Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces", which has already been published in German and will have en English version in 2022. The work seeks to investigate the true novelties of the digital capitalism. In her analysis, she juxtaposes Marx's concept of productive forces with the idea of distributive forces. From platform economics to artificial intelligence, Pfeiffer shows that digital capitalism is less about the efficient production of value, but rather about its fast, risk-free and permanently guaranteed realization in the markets. *** Nesta edição, reproduzimos o sétimo episódio do Seminário Internacional “Automação e Digitalização no Capitalismo Contemporâneo”, uma iniciativa organizada pelo GEPD, Digilabour e NETS. A convidada é Sabine Pfeiffer, que é professora na Universidade Friedrich Alexander, de Erlangen e Nuremberg, na Alemanha, onde detém a cadeira de Sociologia, Tecnologia e Trabalho. Em sua apresentação, Pfeiffer discute tópicos de seu livro intitulado "Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces", já publicado em alemão e cuja versão em inglês sairá em 2022. O trabalho procura investigar as verdadeiras novidades do capitalismo digital. Em sua análise, ela justapõe o conceito de forças produtivas de Marx com a ideia de forças distributivas. Da economia de plataforma à inteligência artificial, Pfeiffer mostra que o capitalismo digital é menos sobre a produção eficiente de valor, mas sim sobre sua realização rápida, livre de risco e permanentemente garantida nos mercados. O exame dessa dinâmica e de suas consequências também leva à questão de quão destrutivas as forças distributivas do capitalismo digital podem ser.
In August this year Jake Davison, a 22-year-old from Plymouth, went on a shooting rampage that left six dead, including his mother and himself. In the aftermath it emerged that Davison had been a member of ‘incel' forums online. He's not the first mass shooter to have links to online groups espousing extreme hatred of women. Since Elliot Rodger killed six people in California in 2014, self-proclaimed ‘involuntary celibates' have carried out multiple mass murders, mostly in North America. What's driving this extreme misogyny? Is incel ideology on the rise? And are Big Tech companies to blame for allowing these groups to thrive online? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined Debbie Ging, associate professor in the school of communications at Dublin City University. - Find out more about Zizi Papacharissi's work on affective publics oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/1…999736 - Michael Kimmel's book Angry White Men is available here uk.bookshop.org/books/angry-white…era/9781568589619 - Read Amnesty's report on Toxic Twitter www.amnesty.org/en/latest/researc…-women-chapter-1/ - The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism by Ben Little and Alison Winch is available here www.routledge.com/The-New-Patriarc…ok/9780367260156 - Find out more about Debbie Ging's work www.dcu.ie/communications/people/debbie-ging ----- Researched by Margaret Welsh. Produced by Becky Malone. Music by Poddington Bear and Chris Zabriskie under Creative Commons license. Enjoying the show? Tweet us your comments and questions @NEF! The Weekly Economics Podcast is brought to you by the New Economics Foundation. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org
In part two of our conversation with Villanova visiting professor of philosophy Emma Stamm, we discuss the "psychedelic industry's" increasing fixation on digital capitalism. Looking at apps like MyDelica and hardware like Kernel's brain-scanning helmet, we discuss how the social implications of this technology extend well beyond psychedelia. Co-hosts: Neşe Devenot, Brian Normand, David Nickles, Brian Pace. Editor: Matt Payne Support: If you like the show please support us on Patreon or make a tax-deductible donation. **Thank you to our $10+ Patreon podcast and video supporters: Houston Puck, Dave Hodges, Jon Hanna, James Hubbard, Lindsay Munson, Abigail Bianchi, Meghan Kennedy, Dave Ayers, Tehseen Noorani, Daniel McQueen, Maryann Kehoe, Ben Yono, Annick McIntosh, Dustin T, Aaron Williams, Jenine Innes, Julia A, Christian Dawley, Leon Boroditsky, Samy Tammam, Amanda Alexander, Jason Gross, John Bannon, Miller, Hooks, Clifford Hudson, Sandra Dreisbach, Zeph Tam
On this episode, I explore data capitalism, acid communism, and the psychedelic ties between them, with Emma Stamm. Emma holds a PhD in cultural & social thought, and works at the intersections of the philosophy of technology, critical theory, and science and technology studies. She has taught at both NYU & Virginia Tech, and is now a professor in the philosophy department at Villanova University. Our conversation explores the relationship between data capitalism & consciousness, using psychedelic science as a way of illuminating those aspects of consciousness that cannot be rendered via data's language. Enjoy!
Today I'm talking with Jathan Sadowski from Monash University about the economic and political dimensions of digital capitalism. An emerging consensus sees digital data, its extraction and the concentration of Big Tech as signalling a dramatic shift towards a new age of “digital feudalism”: The story goes that digital services with minimal marginal costs enabled unprecedented market concentration in the hands of giant corporations, which thrive on capturing rents in the form of data they mine from end users. For many liberal scholars, this marks a dysfunctional phase of capitalism where innovation and competition are stifled, whereas profit-driven "socially legitimate" accumulation is displaced by rentierism. Jathan argues on the contrary that contemporary forms of digital value capture sit in the continuity of capitalist accumulation strategies. We talk about the Internet of Things, smart devices and energy grids, platform-based services, new forms of territorial sovereignty exerted by private companies which own digital urban infrastructures... but also about socialist alternatives to the dystopian present, which would necessitate socializing data and managing it as a public good. You can follow Jathan on Twitter at: @jathansadowskiCheck out Jathan's personal website: http://www.jathansadowski.com/Jathan's recent book on Digital Capitalism with MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/too-smartJathan's recent academic papers on Digital Capitalism:When Data is Capitalhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951718820549The Internet of Landlordshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12595Other references recommended by Jathan:Why the Luddites were righthttps://www.versobooks.com/books/3184-breaking-things-at-workDemocratic Datahttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3727562Statecraft in the Digital Agehttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k16c24g
I det här avsnittet fortsätter Mirjam samtalet om livet i den digitala kapitalismen, nu med Krakelmedlemmarna Katja och Anna-Klara. Avsnittet handlar om hur man kan använda Marx för att förstå både vad som är kapitalistisk kontinuitet och vad som är nytt i den digitala kapitalismen. Är utvecklingen av digital teknik ett hot eller ett löfte för de arbetande människorna - eller kan man ens ställa frågan på det sättet? Varför får Instagram oss att glömma vem som gjort telefonen vi håller i handen - och till och med själva telefonen? Hur suddar det digitala livet ut både de tidsmässiga och rumsliga gränserna mellan arbete och fritid, produktion och konsumtion, liv och exploatering? Och vad är problemet med det?!Nämns:Christian Fuchs, ”Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism” (2019)Silvia Federici, "Wages Against Housework" (1975)Allt åt alla Göteborg, "Att arbeta i pandemin" (2021)David Harvey, "Spaces of Global Capitalism" (2006)Krakelpodden är en antikapitalistisk podd om kroppen, språket, kulturen och politiken. Görs av föreningen Krakel i Malmö. Läs mer om oss på www.krakelkrakel.com. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
'I miss the cameras. They used to be heavier than us. Then they became smaller than our heads. Now you can't see them at all.' We discuss one of our favourites of 2020: Brandon Cronenberg's sci-fi horror film Possessor, in comparison with Leos Carax's rightly-lauded Holy Motors . As they unfold, both films reveal themselves to be concerned with the blurring of selfhood and performance. We ask how these films relate to our corporatized world of global mass surveillance and how much agency we have within this scheme, when our bodies seem to be fated by unseen corporate entities. And ultimately, we must ask: who is this performance for?
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Regulating Facebook, Twitter & Co. is not about cutting freedom. It's about saving it. For the benefit of all, including the companies themselves.
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Paris Marx is joined by Jathan Sadowski to discuss the politics of smart technology, how it enables powerful actors to further control the population, and why we should be more comfortable dismantling technologies that don’t serve the public good.Jathan Sadowski is the author of “Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World” and a Research Fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University. He recently wrote about how smart tech is a means for corporate control and the need to dismantle urban surveillance systems. Follow Jathan on Twitter as @jathansadowski.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)
Big tech continues to dominate the markets. How can their competitors stay alive while keeping up with the speed of innovation? Paul & Rich discuss the double-edged sword of how to find efficiencies. How can we shift away from machine learning that often misses the mark? Start empowering & trusting your people and give them what they need to build tools to find those insights for you. Links Airtable Postlight Case Studies Goldman Sans Font
Jathan Sadowski, author, "Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World" Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - "Mark's intro" Kraftwerk - "Tanzmusik" - "Interview with Jathan Sadowski" - "Mark's comments after the interview" Fine Young Cannibals & GE - "C by GE light bulb instructions" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/93184
Jathan Sadowski, author, "Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World" Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - "Mark's intro" Kraftwerk - "Tanzmusik" - "Interview with Jathan Sadowski" - "Mark's comments after the interview" Fine Young Cannibals & GE - "C by GE light bulb instructions" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/93184
“This [pandemic] forces the entire world to in essence step back and to not only deal with the crisis at hand, but also to see how we can develop in the future and who do we want to be in a future that will have these types of challenges.”Nicolas Berggruen is the Chairman of the Berggruen Institute, which addresses fundamental political and cultural questions in our rapidly changing world. Committed to leaving a legacy of art and architecture, he serves on museum boards and councils from Los Angeles to Berlin and is presently planning the Institute’s new headquarters in the Santa Monica mountains with Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron. Berggruen is co-author with Nathan Gardels of Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism and Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century, a Financial Times Book of the Year.Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub. You can find Paul on Twitter: @HoldengraberDUBLAB is a non-profit radio station based in Los Angeles. Since 1999, DUBLAB has been broadcasting wide spectrum music from around the world daily. Their programming has expanded to include the production of original art exhibitions, films, record releases, education programs related to health, youth, development, education creative processes and events with leading institutions in LA and beyond. DUBLAB is a platform for discovery and cultivation of next - wave music, arts and culture. For over 20 years, DUBLAB’s fundamental goal has been to support the broad range of Los Angeles’ talent and diversity in inclusive and inspiring ways. DUBLAB also includes affiliate stations in Germany, Japan, Barcelona, and Brazil, with more than 300,000 international listeners who connect to our streams and podcasts every day.
Nathan Gardels and Nicolas Berggruen in conversation with Mayor Eric Garcetti at Live Talks Los Angeles discussing their book, "Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism. The talk took place on April 24, 2019. To learn more about Live Talks Los Angeles -- upcoming events and videos -- visit livetalksla.org and subscribe to this podcast.
At the online retailer Zalando, employees are required to rate each other. Workers at Amazon have scanners that monitor them for optimal movement. These forms of digital surveillance are poisoning work environments.
Podcast for the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations
A book talk with Nicolas Berggruen of the Berggruen Institute
A book talk with Nicolas Berggruen of the Berggruen Institute
Podcast for the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations
A book talk with Nicolas Berggruen of the Berggruen Institute
Understanding Digital Capitalism – wie Google & Co. den Kapitalismus verändern Eine Veranstaltung der Jungen Panke zur Politischen Ökonomie des Digitalen Kapitalismus (Januar 2015) Referent: Timo Daum Amazon, Facebook, Google & Co. sind die "ruling class of the digital world" (Nenad Romic). Sie verändern durch ihre Strategien, Geschäftsmodelle und Unternehmenskulturen unser Leben und die Funktionsweise des Kapitalismus selbst. War das Auto Schlüsseltechnologie, infrastrukturelles Paradigma und ideologischer Bezugspunkt für den Kapitalismus des 20. Jahrhunderts, so wird diese Rolle heute durch das Internet übernommen: Das Netz ist die Meta-Struktur, auf denen diese Unternehmen ihre Imperien aufbauen. Womit verdienen sie ihr Geld? Welche Infrastrukturen benötigen sie? Welche Auswirkungen hat das auf Politik und Gesellschaft? Was ist der Kern der "Californian Ideology" und wie gelingt es dem Silicon Valley, der Welt seine Produkte und Services aufzuzwingen? Was bedeuten user generated content, social media und shareconomy für den Kapitalismus – wird noch irgendwo Wert produziert? Sind die Facebook-User das neue Proletariat? Eine Kritik der politischen Ökonomie heutzutage muss verstehen, wie Google und Co. funktionieren…
John Thornhill talks to the billionaire investor and philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen about his book: Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Yascha Mounk talks to the Berggruen Institute’s Nicholas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels, co-authors of “Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism,” about how money influences government, Trump’s impact on democracy and capitalism, populism, owning robots, and ideas for what can be done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yascha Mounk talks to the Berggruen Institute’s Nicholas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels, co-authors of “Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism,” about how money influences government, Trump’s impact on democracy and capitalism, populism, owning robots, and ideas for what can be done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Rushkoff about the state of the digital economy. Douglas Rushkoff is the host of the Team Human podcast and author of Team Human as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture. He is a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. He made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. Website: rushkoff.com Twitter: @rushkoff
In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Rushkoff about the state of the digital economy. SUBSCRIBE to continue listening and gain access to all content on samharris.org/subscribe.
Jon: Welcome to episode 269 of The Digital Life. A show about our insights into the future of design and technology. I'm your host Jon Follett and with me is founder and co-host Dirk Knemeyer. Dirk: Greetings listeners. Jon: For our topic this week we are going to chat a little bit about digital capitalism […]
From Season 1 titled, "What is Post-Christian Culture?" In our third episode of This Cultural Moment, we discuss the idea of relevance vs resilience. How should the people of Jesus remain faithful to the way of Jesus in a changing world?
In this interview, recorded at the SocRel 2017 conference in Leeds, Professor Adam Possamai discusses the rising popularity of ‘Hyper-Real religion’ – a category encompassing Jediism, Matrixism, and other movements taking influence from popular culture. Situating hyper-real religions within the contemporary context of digital capitalism,
For this final episode in the series I spoke to Aristea Fotopolou about her work on gender, data and self-tracking. She told me about her work on fertility and pregnancy apps and how they construct and embody discourses of gender, capitalism and neoliberalism. We question the extent to which we are encouraged to be "good citizens". In my view Aristea has some very interesting and useful ways of conceptualising the ways in which we engage with health and exercise tracking such as "biopedagogy" and focusing on the "micropractices" of using technology. Aristea tells me about her experience of conducting an autoethnography of her use of self-tracking and how her identity as a researcher and a research participant blurred. In the discussion Aristea connects the discussion of self-tracking to her other work on feminist activism and digital networks through suggesting that tracking is a form of gendered labour.
Sathnam Sanghera, Judy Wajcman, Griselda Togobo and Robert Colvile join Radio 3 presenter Matthew Sweet to look at the history of the workplace from factory floor to hot desk to the gig economy and debate whether the merging of workplace and home creates more stress.Bosses have always monitored and changed our working day, clocking staff in and out the factory, analyzing productivity through time and motion studies, using remote monitoring, introducing flexible working and “logging on later.”Sathnam Sanghera is a journalist and award-winning author of Marriage Material: A Novel and The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton. Before becoming a writer he (among other things) worked at a burger chain, a hospital laundry, a market research firm, a sewing factory and a literacy project in New York.Judy Wajcman is a Professor of Society at LSE and the author of Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism .Griselda Togobo is an entrepreneur, engineer, chartered accountant and the head of Forward Ladies, an organisation which aims to help companies maximise the potential of their female staff.Robert Colvile is a journalist and author of The Great Acceleration - a new book about how technology is speeding up the pace of life.Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead.Producer: Craig Smith
For this episode in the series I spoke to Btihaj Ajana who is a Senior Lecturer in Culture, Digital Humanities and Creative Industries at King’s College London and Associate Professor at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. We talk about her work on biometrics and self-tracking. She suggests that when our bodies are transformed into data they are able to be distributed over networks and our bodily boundaries become more open and fuzzy. She sees this as a shift from body as flesh to body as data and this new ontology requires a new engagement with ethics politics and regulation.
In the sixth episode in the series I spoke to Liz McFall from the Open University. Liz discusses some of her work on the history of insurance and how this relates to the contemporary impact which digital data is having on insurance. New sources of data are changing how data is calculated although sometimes the changes are not as big as we might expect. We discuss whether self-tracking technologies will create personalised insurance pricing based on exercise activities and speculate on the forthcoming changes to the Affordable Care Act in USA.
For this podcast I spoke to Lynne Pettinger about the work she has done with Ewen Speed and Andrew Goffey on the use of data in the NHS and its impact on how services are managed and understood and the role it plays in privatisation. A key issue she addresses is the impact of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and how it signalled a shift in the role of the NHS. In particular there was a move from the role of the state being to "provider of care" to being a"promoter of care".
In episode 4 of the podcast I am talking to Will Davies, the author of The Happiness Industry and The Limits of Neoliberalism. Will tells me about his research into the history of economics and psychology and its influence on public policy. Why do governments and businesses want to make us happy? What's in it for them?
In episode 3 of the podcast I am speaking to Tamar Sharon about her work on self-tracking and the move of digital companies (such as Google, Facebook and Apple) into health research. Amongst other things we discuss the Apple HealthKit and Google's Baseline study and their implications for the political economy of health and how they are potentially skewing the direction of health research. We also think consider whether self-tracking should be seen as a manifestation of neoliberalism or as something with the potential for the development of different kinds of identities.
In the second episode of my Digital Health/Digital Capitalism podcast I spoke to Minna Ruckenstein about her work on various aspects of digital health and in particular how this is influenced by consumption. We discussed issues around "surveillance capitalism", "prosumption" in digital health technologies, direct to consumer genetic testing and the potential for self tracking devices to be used to establish social solidarity.
This is the first podcast in the series and I am speaking to Nick Fox about his work on personal medical devices and his analysis of digital health and digital capitalism more generally. I think this discussion works pretty well as a broad introduction to the themes of the series as Nick really clearly lays out some useful ways of approaching these things. He also offers some suggestions of how things might develop in the future and some propositions for how we can challenge some of the more damaging aspects of the digital health and capitalism. Can we reshape digital technologies to have more positive and collective affects? Can networked health devices enable solidarity and collective action?
Michael Betancourt critical theorist whose work in the past ten years has been translated into seven languages. His new book, The Critique of Digital Capitalism, is about providing a way to understand how capitalism has expanded without constraint regardless of social, legal or ethical limits Dr. Joe Parent best-selling author of the new book: THE BEST DIET BOOK EVER: The Zen of Losing Weight available in paperback and eBook on Amazon.com. Audiobook coming soon! His other books include the classic ZEN GOLF: Mastering the Mental Game and ZEN TENNIS: Playing in the Zone, with over a half-million copies in print, digital, and audio formats worldwide. Dr. Joseph Parent is a sought after keynote speaker and highly regarded expert in Performance Psychology working with athletes, actors, artists, and executives Joel Comm entrepreneur, bestselling author, public speaker, social media evangelist, and mobile marketing innovator. The leading authority on new media marketing tactics, Joel's current specialty is using social media such as Facebook and Twitter to help companies market their brand. He has also created top-ranked mobile apps, including the most talked about iPhone app of all time. Not just another social media expert For more information go to MoneyForLunch.com. Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter. Need help with your business? Contact Bert Martinez. Have Bert Martinez speak at your event!
The political economy has morphed throughout recent decades into a digitally-structured capitalism. The lecture locates some primary features of this historical process in patterns of corporate capital investment in ICTs. It goes on to sketch the development of the politics of digitization, between the 1970s and today. A foremost conclusion is that, in contrast to the unabashed triumphalism that greeted the rise of the Internet as a pole of growth during the 1990s, today we are living amid both persistent economic stagnation and escalating political contention over the structure and control of the world’s information infrastructure. Dan Schiller, Professor Emeritus of Library & Information Science and of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is an historian of information and communications in the context of the five-hundred year development of the capitalist political economy. He has held Chairs at UCSD , UCLA and Temple Universities and is the author of several books including Digital Capitalism: networking the global market system (MIT Press, 1999) and, most recently, Digital Depression: Information Technology and Economic Crisis (University of Illinois Press, 2014). He writes about the Internet and other communications systems for Le Monde Diplomatique. Presently, he is conducting archival research for a longstanding project on the history of US telecommunications and is visiting the Technology and Democracy project in CRASSH .
Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and there are too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are continually being blamed. But isn't the sole purpose of the smartphone to give us such quick access to people and information that we'll be free to do other things? Isn't technology supposed to make our lives easier? In Pressed for Time, Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication devices, and the sense of always being rushed is the result of the priorities and parameters we ourselves set rather than the machines that help us set them. Indeed, being busy and having action-packed lives has become valorized by our productivity-driven culture. Wajcman offers a bracing historical perspective, exploring the commodification of clock time, and how the speed of the industrial age became identified with progress. She also delves into the ways time use differs for diverse groups in modern societies, showing how changes in work patterns, family arrangements, and parenting all affect time stress. Bringing together empirical research on time use and theoretical debates about dramatic digital developments, this accessible and engaging book will leave readers better versed in how to use technology to navigate life's fast lane.
Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and there are too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are continually being blamed. But isn't the sole purpose of the smartphone to give us such quick access to people and information that we'll be free to do other things? Isn't technology supposed to make our lives easier? In Pressed for Time, Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication devices, and the sense of always being rushed is the result of the priorities and parameters we ourselves set rather than the machines that help us set them. Indeed, being busy and having action-packed lives has become valorized by our productivity-driven culture. Wajcman offers a bracing historical perspective, exploring the commodification of clock time, and how the speed of the industrial age became identified with progress. She also delves into the ways time use differs for diverse groups in modern societies, showing how changes in work patterns, family arrangements, and parenting all affect time stress. Bringing together empirical research on time use and theoretical debates about dramatic digital developments, this accessible and engaging book will leave readers better versed in how to use technology to navigate life's fast lane.