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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoContemporary art: Progressive or pointless? - Doha Debates2026-07-07T15:50:04+00:00
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https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-algorithmic-order/
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/06/a-much-needed-reaction-to-the-dark-enlightenment/
robertogrecoWe can secede by removing children from state-run schools, converting currency into gold or cryptocurrency, relocating to states with lower taxes, obtaining a second passport, or expatriating to a tax haven. We can secede, and many have, by joining gated communities to create private governments in miniature.
If laws get in the way of tech oligarchs’ desires, they can “exit” and find a new land where they make their own rules. One in which the “creators” of the bold synthetic future are singularly capable of making history. At its most extreme, its advocates propose breaking society into tiny states, each governed by a CEO (what Slobodian calls zones). Some proponents support racial separation, with the belief that “elites” will enhance the IQs of their progeny if they associate and breed with each other. This dark enlightenment view envisions a future where dominant humans merge with machines and achieve superintelligence.
It is no accident that the Pope opens the encyclical with a contrast between two familiar biblical passages—the Tower of Babel and the rebuilding of the city wall in Nehemiah. In the Tower of Babel story, the Pope highlights the fallacy of building a tower that could reach heaven, but he locates its problematic nature not as an arrogance of wanting to know the true nature of God, but as hubris through expecting that humans can create an artifact that overrides the diversity of the human creation. The other story Pope Leo invokes is the book of Nehemiah, one that foregrounds our shared obligations to one another and the importance of the entire community in building.
I read this passage and imagined that, as the kids say (or said? I can’t keep up with the latest lingo), Pope Leo was “subtweeting” Peter Thiel. When Thiel proclaims, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,” he is offering a view that the diverse political community may undermine his ability to build his own Tower of Babel. Freedom for the dark enlightenment school suggests that if calls to slow down AI development conflict with elite aims, those calls must be sidelined for the good of technological advance.
This desire to reduce liberalism to economic liberalism is taken to its extreme in the dark enlightenment. This philosophy advocates the acceleration of capitalism and technology even if that goes against popular will or liberal rights protections. Because proponents of this view prioritize the agency of techno-capitalism, they advocate for the rule of techno-corporate power unimpeded by a view of democracy that restricts innovation and freedom.
This perspective is amplified by Marc Andreesen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” where he chides those skeptical of AI as lacking in boldness. His call to “conquer” nature through technological advance has Tower of Babel echoes. When he declares in his manifesto: “we believe in nature, but we also believe in overcoming nature. We are not primitives cowering in fear of the lightning bolt; we are the apex predator. The lightning works for us,” he is placing a dangerously outsized faith in the ability of science and technology to solve the world’s problems.
The idea that liberal democracy and the messiness of diversity of opinion produces feckless outcomes is not a new Idea. Dark enlightenment thinkers are inspired by readings (mis-readings) of a broad set of thinkers, such as Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari, Bataille, and the Italian Futurists. Undoubtedly a dark enlightenment view appeals to some because it is transgressive and shocking. There’s a punk element to upsetting the normies. With Italian Futurism, there is something thrilling about the promise of living on the moon or having robot helpers. Compared to the messy and frustrating work of consensus building in liberal democracies, techo-authoritarianism has the effervescence of technological advance. How does sclerotic bureaucracy and deliberation compete with “move fast and break things”?
Yet competing with it is exactly what Pope Leo is asking us to do. In the section “Building for the common good,” Pope Leo calls for
accepting the limits and weakness of humanity without considering them an error to be corrected. Today, the human desire for fullness of life is at risk of being misled by deceitful goals, such as the prospect of a technology that promises to free us from all weakness, and models of wellbeing that leave behind entire populations.
Our current tech-oligarchs aren’t the Carnegies building libraries and museums for the public good. They aren’t even the Bill Gates of a decade ago, investing in mosquito nets to prevent malaria. For that matter they aren’t even who they were ten years ago when Jeff Bezos was investing millions to work to eradicate global climate change.
It is worth noting that the encyclical is not anti-AI. It gives the remarkable advances of large language models over the last three years their due. But the important thing it does is situate these advances within a broader call to ensure that they serve the common good, even if that vision of the common good conflicts with those drawn to the dark enlightenment."]]>josémarichal popeleoxiv encyclicals 2026 darkenlightenment society technofascism politics quinnslobodian democracy capitalism oligarchy technooligarchy peterthiel marcandreessen technooptimism ai artificialintelligence italianfuturists italianfuturism futurism authoritarianism technofeudalism nietzsche deleuze gilledeleuze deleuze&guattari guattari félixguattari bataille jeffbezos llms billgates climate climatechange globalwarming commongood catholicchurch catholicism accelerationism tescreal transhumanism singularitarianism singularity cosmism extropianism effectivealtruism rationalism longtermism crypto cryptocurrencies magnificahumanitas towerofbabel elitism freedomhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8978fa1c2db5/SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide – Ayin Press2026-06-02T05:17:07+00:00
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https://www.artforum.com/features/simon-denny-art-defense-tech-1234747490/
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https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-rise-of-the-techno-tyrants
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https://aeon.co/essays/in-solarpunk-cities-of-the-future-tech-follows-natures-lead
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https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913029999/machine-decision-is-not-final/
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robertogrecoAfter that, what else might be possible with AI? What if it were shown all the drugs that have ever existed, with all the data about how they work, and then set loose on a database of untried molecules to identify others to explore? What if—and this is where the discussion around machine learning has gotten to now, in 2025—the software could take in a decent chunk of all the information about biology generated by humankind and, in an act both spooky and profound, suggest entirely new things?
Many people seem so feverish, so hungry for "AI" to be useful, for it to be good. In some ways, this makes sense. Faced with the complexity of the problems the planet faces – the "polycrises" (you can't even just go with the singular "polycrisis" any more, things are that fucked up) – "AI" has emerged with solutions, salvations. "AI" makes all sorts of glorious promises – you'll never be lonely, you'll never have writer's block, you'll never suffer.
So despite the obvious villainy of almost all the giant "AI" startups and their founders – MechaHitler and eyeball-scanning orbs and a growing number of techno-fascist companies named after various Tolkien characters – many people keep insisting (wishful wishful thinking) there are good guys and good uses and good models and someday, someday soon even, with the right tweaks, "AI" will surely cure cancer. (Few of these people are using "AI" to cure cancer, of course; the biggest proponents seem to simply be autogenerating PowerPoint slides for their "AI" consultancy side-hustles.)
It seems much more likely, as Dave Karpf pointed out this week, that "AI" is merely a "satisficing technology," a portmanteau he borrows from Herbert Simon that combines "satisfy" and "suffice." That is, "AI" isn't going to be great; it's not even going to be good. But it doesn't have to be. It's not going to unlock the big secrets of the universe, but for a lot of the things it'll be used for – shrug – who cares. It'll be merely good enough to get by – echoes of Tressie McMillan Cottom's observation that "AI" is decidedly "mid." And I supposed we could wait and see how much mediocrity and slop the world is willing to tolerate as the mediocre slop machines destroy the environment.
But even calling it "satisficing" or "mid" feels a little too generous to me, and I'm really not sure we should just cross our fingers and hope it all works out okay – hope not just for a cure for cancer but an avoidance of environmental collapse, a reprieve from the growing threat of fascism. Because this shit is bad. And "we need to talk about AI in terms of values, not vibes," as Neil Selwyn argues.
(That said, I am probably going to talk at length about the vibes in Monday's newsletter. I'm very keen to think through the research released this past week that suggested that, despite feeling like they were being more productive using "AI" coding tools, people were substantially less so. Because there is definitely something afoot with how "AI" is making people feel – all that glazing and sycophancy – that is really key to getting people to use this bullshit machinery and to abandon human relationships and political solidarity in turn.)"]]>audreywatters 2025 ai artificialintelligence sayashkapoor arvindnarayanan science polycrisis technofascism marcandreessen twitter davekarpf herbertsimon tressiemcmillancottom neilselwyn palantir chatgpt openai grok ice alejandracarabello adamgurri axon eff draftone police policing surveillance columbia education edtech csula henryfarrell abrahamnewman hadiparvoity code.org futurism nicholasscarr schools schooling commonsensemedia children google ryanbroderick aislop slop generativeai misogyny a16z incels productivity microsoft robertcaro anduril genaihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0a22f6afbda0/Jazz Minute: Jazz Fashion Pt.3 - Afrofuturism, Eastern Philosophy, and Style - YouTube2025-07-12T01:14:57+00:00
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https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/05/2517-its-beginning-to-feel-a-bit-like-the-future/
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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/for-big-tech-the-future-is-agi-what-about-the-rest-of-us.html
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/maga-america-suburban-donald-trump
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https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/
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https://helenbeetham.substack.com/p/second-breakfast-x-imperfect-offering
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https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/venture-capitals-epistemology-violent-masculinity-and-eugenics/
robertogrecoWe will sing of the great crowds agitated by work, pleasure and revolt; the multi-colored and polyphonic surf of revolutions in modern capitals: the nocturnal vibration of the arsenals and the workshops beneath their violent electric moons: the gluttonous railway stations devouring smoking serpents; factories suspended from the clouds by the thread of their smoke; bridges with the leap of gymnasts flung across the diabolic cutlery of sunny rivers: adventurous steamers sniffing the horizon; great-breasted locomotives, puffing on the rails like enormous steel horses with long tubes for bridle, and the gliding flight of aeroplanes whose propeller sounds like the flapping of a flag and the applause of enthusiastic crowds.
The manifesto was a call for violence. Epistemological violence and literal violence. It is a call for violence. It is a demand to erase history, to re-inscribe hierarchy and order. Eugenics will be reaffirmed through today's discrimination engine: the Internet, the algorithm, AI.
For all that AI seems to promise "the future of knowledge," this is a call for ignorance and for, as Helen Beetham puts it, a radical thoughtlessness. This is the antithesis of care – care and criticality are feminine, weak.
This is the future, they tell us. But it is not a rupture. It is a continuation, a future unbroken from computing’s past.
Over the past few decades, technology has played an instrumental role in neoliberalism and austerity – as we have dismantled public institutions and "the welfare state," we've told people they should just rely on the Internet instead. AI is absolutely the next step in this – as Sam Altman wrote in his latest blog post, "We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents 'join the workforce' and materially change the output of companies." The system wants us to be ever-more productive, and if AI cannot do that as an “agent” or “assistant” – that sure seems to be the bet the British government is making with its horrifying plans to "unleash AI" on its people – then workers will be fired. Perhaps replaced with robots, but more likely replaced with a more compliant, more precarious workforce.
Technology enables this structurally, but it works for this culturally and intellectually as well, with its core ideological underpinnings — libertarianism, individualism. Technology has aided in the political project of reorienting the mission of institutions like schools away from civic goals (as well as away from any sort of human flourishing) and towards the goals of industry – hence all the talk about “technical skills” and “digital literacy” as the way in which children are supposed to “read” and interact with the world.
Critical thinking (and critical theory) is, despite Paul Graham's vehement mischaracterizations, one way in which we can help students to understand the world, to understand its diversity – to deal positively, and dare I say generatively, with people and ideas that are different from their own. Despite all the handwaving about the importance of critical thinking and creativity for "the jobs of the future" (more on this in the coming weeks too), it seems clear that what the system wants is for us to be productive and be compliant. The algorithms (and the storytelling) it's unleashing will serve to identify those who it deems useless at best, dangerous at worst."]]>2025 audreywatters paulgraham siliconvalley masculinity maga donaldtrump markzuckerberg wokeness robertoppenheimer blacklivesmatter marxism culturalrevolution metoo humanities peterthiel facebook meta dei nickclegg eugenics fascism billionaires futuristmanifesto filippotomassomatinetti italianfuturusts futurism futirists marcandreessen technooptimism museums libraries morality feminism utilitarianism violence discrimination gender helenbeetham thoughtlessness care caring welfare publicinstitutions institutions samaltman openai ai artificialintelligence libertarianism individualism education highereducation schools schooling publicschools teaching learning howweteach howwelearn algorithms storytelling filippomarinetti tiktok bytedance tutoring chatgpt sethbruggeman chuckpearson colleges universities 4chan sherryturkle derekthompson kashmirhill jathansadowski politics filippotommasomarinetti wokeism #metoo marinetti jrobertoppenheimerhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9cca5a951027/The Dan MacQuillan episode - by Helen Beetham2025-01-17T18:23:55+00:00
https://helenbeetham.substack.com/p/the-dan-macquillan-episode
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https://elpais.com/eps/2021-07-13/afrofuturismo-cuantico.html
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https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/elon-musks-tech-projects-are-inseparable
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https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/2024/06/episode-089-near-future-laboratory-podcast/
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/
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https://disconnect.blog/elon-musk-is-building-ties-with-the-global-extreme-right/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/opinion/ezra-klein-kristen-ghodsee.html
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https://www.wired.com/story/doug-rushkoff-survival-of-the-richest/
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n-063-imagining-the-future-of-the-imagination/id1546452193?i=1000600664067
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https://www.darklaboratory.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=142Z52-G_D4
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-argument-of-afropessimism
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https://soundcloud.com/emolinsky/solarpunk-the-future
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https://medium.com/@anabjain/calling-for-a-more-than-human-politics-f558b57983e6
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https://www.ruralfuturism.com/
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http://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2019/10/23/on-design-fiction-close-but-no-cigar/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tf7T2TySG0
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https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1200166974292140033
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http://hackeducation.com/2019/11/28/ed-tech-agitprop
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https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/09/civilisation-planet-authors
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https://go.xprize.org/oceanstories/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkUwXenBokU
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69660/odd-futurism
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o341S4xh1r0
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http://www.longviewoneducation.org/when-the-narrative-breaks/
robertogrecoCaregiving — a low-paid, low-status job — is also most often done by disadvantaged workers. One in 10 working black women are employed in direct care; more than a quarter of direct care workers are black women. In contrast, while white women make up 35 percent of these jobs, only one in 37 working white women is employed in direct care. Latina women, as well as immigrant women, are also disproportionately represented.
Since women of color are disproportionately represented in these growing jobs of the future, why are they not represented in the forecasts about the future? In an article called Where are the Black Futurists?(2000), the author (listed as ‘Black Issues’) reflects on an all white male C-SPAN futurist panel:
“there are too many people talking about the future without considering the future of African Americans and other people of color.
By not considering us, is the majority implicitly suggesting that we don’t matter? Do they think that as America ages, we will continue to play the traditional service and support roles for their communities? When I hear estimates from the U.S. Department of Labor that we’ll need nearly a million home health aides in the next decade, and I know that most home health aides now are Black and Brown women, I conclude that unless the wage structure changes, the future implications for those women and their families are frightening.
But the futurists mainly seem to be predicting what an aging society will need without predicting who will provide it.”2
"]]>benjamindoxtdator 2017 care caring future jobs education sfsh collaboration creativity human tcsnmy cv machines technology humanities humanism criticalthinking civics citizenry democracy work labor stem steam economics caregiving race racism futurism scienceshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aee64b73c990/Nnedi Okorafor: Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa | TED Talk | TED.com2017-11-01T22:39:47+00:00
https://www.ted.com/talks/nnedi_okorafor_sci_fi_stories_that_imagine_a_future_africa
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http://www.longviewoneducation.org/more-seymours-than-women-is-this-the-future-of-educational-change/
robertogreco“Yet their likely outcomes, their aspirations, and even the place they live – a seaside English town – are routinely condemned as failures by the dominant educational discourse. Unless they get results they can’t get, aspire to jobs they don’t want, and move to a place they do not wish to live in, then they have failed the social mobility test. They are undeserving. And the conditions which our society reserves for those who cannot or will not ‘escape’ from the reality of their lives are grim, and getting grimmer: zero-hours contracts, below-poverty pay, insecure housing, a punitive benefits system, and the gradual withdrawal of all manner of support from education, health and social services.”
So, we face a futurist deficit that we must address, not by keeping the same questions and filling out the ranks with ‘diverse’ people, but by asking better questions. In an article called Where are the Black Futurists?(2000), the author (listed as ‘Black Issues’) reflects on an all white male C-SPAN futurist panel:
“there are too many people talking about the future without considering the future of African Americans and other people of color.
By not considering us, is the majority implicitly suggesting that we don’t matter? Do they think that as America ages, we will continue to play the traditional service and support roles for their communities? When I hear estimates from the U.S. Department of Labor that we’ll need nearly a million home health aides in the next decade, and I know that most home health aides now are Black and Brown women, I conclude that unless the wage structure changes, the future implications for those women and their families are frightening.
But the futurists mainly seem to be predicting what an aging society will need without predicting who will provide it.”
I write from a privileged position, working in a well-resourced and professionally supportive international school. My students have sources of privilege and power in their lives, and I’m pretty confident that many will be able to fit into the standard futurist imaginaries because of a good education and how privilege has shaped their life chances. It’s especially because of my context that I resist the imaginaries that will leave many behind. Schools need to change and be better to serve youth, and not just serve them up to grim futurist imaginaries."]]>benjamindoxtdator diversity gender education thoughtleaders willrichardson brucedixon privilege power economics futurism futurists future edtech labor society inequality capitalism 2017 californianideologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:41d17a5107dd/SOLARPUNK : A REFERENCE GUIDE – Solarpunks – Medium2017-10-13T22:30:33+00:00
https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-reference-guide-8bcf18871965
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https://eyemyth.unboxfestival.com/
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