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Against Platforms w/ Mike Pepi
🕑 Added 2025-01-15 11:00:06 +0000 UTCMike Pepi is the author of “Against Platforms”, a bold critique of the hidden costs of digital life – and a manifesto for a better future. He is also one of my best friends and someone I have been in conversation with for over a decade.
In this episode, we discuss our shared history in working to develop a new institutionalist critique of emerging technologies and platforms. The vast expansion of platforms during the 2010’s, which now encompass nearly all aspects of social life, represented a blindspot for the political left. To understand how this happened, we need to retrace the history of the 60’s counter-culture and the embrace of libertarian philosophies amongst the New Left.
Since 2011, Mike Pepi, Brad Troemel, myself and other artists and writers have been engaged in an on-going dialogue that explores the ideological roots and design of platform technologies. Mike writes:
“We have been taught that digital technologies are neutral tools, transparent, easily understood, and here to serve us. The reality, is that they are laden with assumptions and collateral consequences – ideology, in other words. And it is this hidden ideology that must be dismantled if we are to harness technology for the fullest expression of our humanity.”
Get the book:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761644/against-platforms-by-mike-pepi/
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Bond_Vigilante
The state hasn't eroded. The ways in which it interacts with market participants has just changed. Public private partnerships balloon to generate new wealth, new profitable markets. and to attract(free flowing) capital. labor protections removed labor unions borderline illegal. All are told: You are an individual in the market nothing more. Compete.
