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Matthew Flisfeder - Algorithmic Desire

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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I Don't Believe That I'm a Techno Utopianist and I Don't Believe That I'm a Techno Dystopianist

Technology is never neutral let's say but what it does is open up a window for us to understand the material conditions and the political conditions in which we're living. The technologies that are being developed within capitalism do have this liberatory emancipatory potential then it helps us to make sense of our current state, he says. We shouldn't try to dismiss them as liberal conceptions of freedom and equality  we should just actualize them and make them material right? i want to accelerate the social media metaphor not only for the imminent critique but also to recognize that in different material and political conditions the technologies that we've developed can be a wing in our emancipation. I'm using my mobile phone to

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