Alan Jacobs „79 Theses on Technology. For Disputation.“

Alan Jacobs, der mir bisher nicht sagt, hat 79 Thesen zu Technologie aufgestellt und die sind richtig interessant. Ein paar Beispiele:

"Everything begins with attention."

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"Simone Weil wrote that ‘Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity’; if so, then surveillance is the opposite of attention."

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"We cannot understand the internet without perceiving its true status: The Internet is a failed state."

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"Digital textuality offers us the chance to restore commentary to its pre-modern place as the central scholarly genre."

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"“Technology wants to be loved,” says K., wrongly: But we want to invest our technologies with human traits to justify our love for them."

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"Cyborgs lack humor, because the fusion of person and tool disables self-irony. The requisite distance from environment is missing."

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"The chief purpose of technology under capitalism is to make commonplace actions one had long done painlessly seem intolerable."

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"Consistent pseudonymity creates one degree of disembodiment; varying pseudonymity and anonymity create infinite disembodiment."

— Ti Leo (@Ti_Leo) April 18, 2015

Selbst wenn man, was ja beabsichtigt ist, nicht zustimmt, Futter für’s Gehirn. Und das Beste? Im Lauf der folgenden Wochen wird The Infernal Machine zu jeder These eine Gegenthese formulieren.