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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoInstitute for the Critical Study of Zionism - Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism2026-07-04T09:51:00+00:00
https://criticalzionismstudies.org/
robertogrecozionism emmaiagelman palestine decolonization settlercolonialism colonialism colonization jewishstudies judaism politics ideology israel activism solidarity icszhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:00fa14a9a7f5/Citations Needed: News Brief: Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support2026-07-02T01:36:19+00:00
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-despite-9-figure-infusion-from-silicon-valley-abundance-still-seeks-popular-support
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU30NyNDtIk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbaaSA7H_UY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mPRkXbpFjs
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https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-cult-of-optimization/
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/1s4lZhoC8mA8mFYsp7L3ea
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https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/ward-graham-michel-de-certeau-wounded-walker
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https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-the-adls-bogus-origin-story-and-its-rise-as-ideological-enforcer-for-empire-and-israel
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https://aeon.co/essays/zhuangzi-and-the-case-against-meritocracy
robertogrecozhuangzi christineabigailtan 2026 interconnected interconnectedness interdependence meritocracy inequality michaelyoung confuscianism ideology deservingness confucius mencius mengzi worthiness xian authority influence security xunzi daoism luck circumstance individualism power morality alvinkennard globalfinancialcrisis greatrecession dominance agency davidgraeber antoniogramsci hegemony ziran taoism moralagency ethics values beliefs humanism liezi self-madehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8ac83adcf85a/"Tech-Driven Prosperity & Right-Wing Racist Politics": Quinn Slobodian on Elon Musk and SpaceX IPO - YouTube2026-06-09T21:55:54+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPMzjr39F1g
robertogreco2026 quinnslobodian elonmusk spacex power wealth ideology politics us rightwing farright governance government democracy infrastructure technofascism ai artificialintelligence business technology tescrealhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8eec5576a11c/Françoise Vergès: The world is made through struggle - YouTube2026-05-31T00:36:05+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc4s1qu8IP8
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https://prismreports.org/2026/04/28/leftist-movement-mosaic-russell-maroon-shoatz/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt15iNgvNsw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StrpSp8anQM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi2A3YtsoT8
robertogrecomusaal-gharbi seanilling wokeness 2010 2024 politics language socialmovements polarization inequality georgefloyd capitalism progressive progressivism highered highereducation academia journalism change policy elitecapture elites georgefloyduprising politicaleconomy symbolism knowlegework ideology politicalcorrectness 1980s 1990s 2010s 2020s activism left right sanctimony 1930s 1920s 1960s eliteoverproduction jackgoldstone peterturchin popularimmiseration elitism culture gatekeeping sociology bertrandcooper professionalmanagerialclass media education pmc nytimes exclusion exclusivity symboliccapitalism class hierarchy hierarchies meritocracy socialclimbing status egalitarianism ambition classism socialposition superiority antiwoke recognition culturewars culturewar society ethnicity representation pierrebourdieu institutions credentials credentialismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8fefad3e40db/Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: The Revolt Eclipses Whatever The World Has to Offer with Idris Robinson2026-04-04T18:20:59+00:00
https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-revolt-eclipses-all-the-world-has-to-offer-by-idris-robinson
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yl6JpVZTdM
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/marc-andreessen-silicon-valley-military-tech/
robertogrecoWhen you examine your own motivations, desires, and inner life, neuroscientists have discovered, you are using the same parts of the brain that allow you to understand the motivations, desires, and inner lives of others. This means in turn that when you wall off access to your own inner life you also impair your capacity to imaginatively inhabit the experience of other people. Zero introspection is not just a personal quirk or a supposed productivity hack. It’s a permission slip for zero accountability. And Andreessen, it turns out, has good reasons for wanting to avoid accountability.
His firm has bet big on war and the companies that provide the technology behind it…
Futrelle goes on to add:
A man with enormous influence over the technologies of war and surveillance, over the political direction of the country, over the infrastructure of violence that his firm has spent a decade funding, has, in effect, announced that he has no interest in examining his conscience.
Andreessen has built the perfect ideology for Silicon Valley in the Trump age: Move fast, break people, and don’t devote even a moment to self-examination.
As a commenter said on the video snippet I linked to above: “He’s just describing psychopathy. Zero introspection, zero remorse, 100% actions that benefit you.”"]
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https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/the-problem-space-of-organizational-ideology-by-lee-stadler/
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https://aftermath.site/woke-2-wokeness-black-lives-matter-activism/
robertogreco In 2026, talk is cheap.
As a movement, Black Lives Matter was intended to be decentralized and leaderless, but of course, that didn’t mean that figureheads did not emerge. The negative space in the idea of wokeness—who are you watching, who is bringing you to awareness?—can easily be occupied by grifters and other bad actors. In 2025, the executive director of the Oklahoma City branch of the Black Lives Matter organization was indicted on embezzlement charges. Shaun King, an organizer who would go on to work on Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, has had enough accusations of pocketing donations meant for families of Black people killed by police violence that there’s a section on it in his Wikipedia page. Because the Black Lives Matter movement used Twitter to signal boost news and organize events, apparently former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson became friends. I think we all know how that one turned out—as soon as Twitter execs found a buyer to take their company, they passed it off to a white supremacist and washed their hands of the whole thing.
In this first version of wokeness, I wasn’t nearly as skeptical of figureheads and corporations co-signing social movements as I needed to be. I had this unshakeable belief that justice would emerge in the end, that people would do the right thing just because it was the right thing to do. I trusted companies, I put my faith in people who posted about the right things online.
Now in 2026, that talk is cheap. People—and corporations—who loudly demonstrate how much they are aware of the right things, how woke they are, are not always behaving in alignment with those values. In 2021, Target made a commitment to invest $2 billion into Black-owned businesses by stocking their products in its stores. By 2025, after America elected Donald Trump president again, Target had rolled back its DEI initiatives, including scaling back its investment in stocking products from Black-owned businesses. A long time ago, that might have felt like a betrayal, but I don’t put much faith in publicly-traded corporations to do the right thing anymore.
Wokeness as an ideology became about showing people how much you are aware of things happening around you, rather than a cogent plan about what to do with your newfound awareness. Being aware is really easy to do, and if just being aware becomes in itself a virtue, then there’s the potential for an ecosystem that is centered around showing other people how much you know. Oh, you’re fighting for Black Lives? I bet you don’t even know about these other marginalized groups of people that also need help! I have watched the brightest minds of my generation, starving hysterical naked, arguing about whether or not the finale of Stephen Universe was sufficiently righteous on the internet.
Knowing and being able to see the firmament that upholds injustice is useful, but you also have to know what to do with that knowledge. I felt proud of seeing different celebrities extol the virtues of the “This Is America” music video, but at the end of the day, it’s just a music video. What did I think people sharing it a lot was going to do? “Stay woke,” raising awareness, cannot be where one’s desire to do good terminates. When all you ask of a person is that they stay aware, attention and consumption takes the place of action. Getting out into the street to march was wonderful, but not when the marches are aimless and without goals, or when they become a platform for people to gain new Instagram followers (follow me to know where the next action is!). Wokeness can be instead about small, interpersonal actions, a way of linking humans together in a chain of community.
I think the mostly grassroots effort to boycott Target is an example of this in action. There is only one goal for this boycott: show Target that it has lost the loyalty of the Black shoppers it used to enjoy, unless the company is willing to reinstate the policies it dropped after Trump was elected president again. As far as I know, there’s no leader to this movement, and it is mostly a spontaneous action born out of Target deciding to roll back its DEI initiatives. It’s not going to change the world, sure, but it’s making a dent in Target’s finances. When a Black pastor attempted to call off the boycott after a year, Black people en masse refused. Former Ohio state Senator Nina Turner told USA Today that in meetings with Target executives, they were still hostile to the idea of diversity, equity and inclusion, and she intended to escalate her efforts in organizing against the brand. All in all, not shopping somewhere isn’t a big ask, but if a lot of people do it together, then you can demonstrate power in a way that these corporations understand: losing them money.
> I don’t really want to change the world anymore.
Recently, I also joined the Democratic Socialists of America. It was the campaign for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a campaign he handily won, that tipped me over. At least in New York, the DSA is an organization that offers me a lot of opportunities to use my knowledge of what needs fixing in this city and put it into action. I don’t think electoralism is the answer, per se, but I know this group will give me resources to put pressure on my local government if and when I need to.
Another part of this is that I have stopped trying to demonstrate my wokeness to other people. I want to lead with actions rather than words. And besides, trying to argue people into submission is quicksand you’ll never get out of—a lot of the time, the person I’m yelling at on the internet knows their argument doesn’t make sense, and by responding to it with anything other than “fuck off” I’m just amplifying it.
Two weeks ago, a friend reached out to me to help with a fundraiser for my friend Stella. We talked about her situation on the Aftermath podcast– she had been scammed out of a lot of money from a game developer who decided just to never pay her for services rendered. We didn’t end up fundraising the entire amount of the money Stella was owed, but we raised nearly $13,000. I was happy to raise awareness of what Stella went through on the channels I have available to me. It is good that people knew that the studio she worked for scammed her. But more than that, I made a material difference in my friend’s life.
It doesn’t have to be a national movement. Stella’s live stream was only a few hours, and most of the people participating were just her friends and neighbors. Still, we managed to do a little good just by pooling our resources and working together.
In 2014, 2018, and 2020, I thought that it was possible to be so woke, so aware, that liberty would emerge. I don’t know what the end goal of a woke 2 could or should be—I think of it more of a chance to give back to people and communities that have helped me, to create spaces of love for the people I love in a world that can be uncaring. I think I don’t really want to change the world anymore. I am just happy to be able to do a little good."]]>2026 gitajackson woke wokeism childishgambino 2016 2020 blacklivesmatter blm woke2 erinvanderhoof wokeness pandemic coronavirus covid-19 2018 2014 tamirrice ericgarner 2024 progressivism politicalcorrectness ferguson michaelbrown shaunking deraymckesson berniesanders 2025 grifters movements organization organizing politics socialmovements dei ideology target boycotts zohranmamdani dsa electoralpolitics electoralism elections rhetoric jackdorsey awareness twitter mikebrown liberals liberalism race racism protests protesthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1ea6ea6246d4/Ghost in the Machine’s Valerie Veatch isn’t drinking the AI Kool-Aid | The Verge2026-03-22T02:06:37+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/897923/ghost-in-the-machine-valerie-veatch-interview
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-plot-against-trains
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https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-world-order
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https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/cultural-palantirism
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https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-springing-time/
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robertogrecoLasch’s work is an extended quarrel with modernity, defined as the advance of an overlapping, mutually reinforcing phalanx of political centralization, mass production, expanded consumption, automation, geographic mobility, the bureaucratization of education, medicine, and family life, moral cosmopolitanism, and legal universalism. Against this barrage of abstractions, Lasch insisted on the fact of human scale.
The human creature has a specific evolutionary endowment and gestational history. As a result, the human infant has a powerful and threatening fantasy life, which it can only outgrow gradually, through a range of close-up interactions, involving both authority and love, with the same caregivers over many years. The bureaucratic rationalization of work and intimate life plays havoc with this scheme of development, producing a weak self, stripped of traditional skills, tools, and autonomy, entirely dependent on large forces beyond its comprehension, much less control, and crippled by ambivalence toward remote, impersonal authority. What sustained the strong pre-modern self was the virtue of hope; what sustains the weak modern self is the ideology of progress."]]>sarahendren christopherlasch georgescialabba modernity humanism scale humanscale ideology progress hope ambivalence authority love bureaucracy work life living skills autonomy tools comprehension abstraction universalism cosmopolitanism education medicing familylife morality centralization politics massproduction production productivity consumerism consumption charlestaylor alasdairmacintyrehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c400faa0c83b/Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives | History books | The Guardian2026-01-25T03:25:00+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/23/capitalism-by-sven-beckert-review-an-extraordinary-history-of-the-economic-system-that-controls-our-lives
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https://aeon.co/essays/the-yearnings-that-take-young-europeans-into-the-far-right
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https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-cult-of-venture-capital-wants-your-future/
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https://daily.jstor.org/the-committed-officers-of-argentinas-dirty-war/
robertogrecoargentina viciousness violence dirtywar ideology dictatorship history 2025 liviagershon adamscharpf 2018 authoritarianism repression behavior stateterror decisionmaking stateviolence military junta terror guerrasuciahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6884c8ef0408/Dangerous Pseudoscience: - Peter Joseph: Substack2025-12-28T20:42:08+00:00
https://peterjoseph.substack.com/p/dangerous-pseudoscience
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https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/spadaro-education-leo-pope-palantir-newman-karp
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https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/the-news-fool-me-all-the-time-i-must
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758251401435
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https://archive.org/details/TheSettlers
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https://bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new-right-wing-tech-intelligentsia/
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https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/12/05/gramscis-nightmare-ai-platform-power-and-the-automation-of-cultural-hegemony/
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https://peterjoseph.substack.com/p/capitalism-as-the-emergent-attractor
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https://peterjoseph.substack.com/p/how-to-argue-with-pro-capitalist
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https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/dying-work
robertogrecoCapital is the pure form of activity. It is the transcendence that takes hold of the immanence of life and exploits it completely. From life, it separates bare life, life that works. The human being is degraded into an animal laborans. Freedom is exploited, too. According to Marx, free competition is nothing but “the relation of capital to itself as another capital”…. The politics of inactivity [by contrast] liberates the immanence of life from the transcendence that alienates life from itself. Only in inactivity do we become aware of the ground on which we rest.
Inactivity, in this sense, is what distinguishes those noneconomic practices that make life truly human. Catholic Workers’ lives are fundamentally playful and celebratory, heedless of the conventional (factory) wisdom of maximizing control, optimizing efficiency, and living by holding off death.
Of course, Day’s life simply was her practice of Catholicism, living the age-old but radical precepts of the Gospel. It’s important not to construe her faith, as is sometimes done, as an instrument for reforming the social order or the economy. That would be to reinscribe it within totalized capitalism, to place it in the service of an order in constant retreat from death. Rather than flight from death, the Gospel represents an embrace of death.
Together, Day and Han help us remember that this embrace structures Christianity from top to bottom. In her journals and chronicles of her daily life and travels, Day regularly refers to the martyrs, to the need to put ourselves to death, and to the embrace of the cross itself. With Han’s help we can see that Day’s prodigal practices—voluntary poverty and the sharing of possessions—are intelligible only as part of a community constituted by its liberation from the hegemony of death. The radical precepts of the Sermon on the Mount are just the “economic” application of the way of the cross. The radical forms of economic life Day encouraged are the concrete and quotidian way Christians go about believing in the Resurrection.
In other words, by being “irresponsible” with her money and her physical safety, Day was refusing the lie that we must try to ensure our lives turn out right by submitting to the current economic order. Her refusal to abide by the dictates of economic efficiency and to let her life be run by “risk” are training in martyrdom. She reminds us that the early Christians were not simply martyred for a “religious belief” detachable from their daily lives; they went to their deaths prepared by an alternative social life that spurned the fear of death.
Han’s work thus not only demonstrates the continued—and even heightened—relevance of the Catholic Worker’s philosophy of labor for a digital age. He also unearths the intimate connection between radical Christian social practices and the very center of our faith—the Paschal Mystery. If those practices sometimes seem a little too radical for us ordinary Christians, it’s worth recalling that Day herself often pointed out that the way she lived was not for the religious elite, but for everybody. Her own inspiration came from the simple truths Christians share and with which we are marked in our baptism: we have already died, and so we have nothing to lose; we have already risen, and so we can live without fear. "]]>byung-chilhan catholicism catholicworker colinmiller religion catholicchurch christianity philosophy labor work workers politics dorotyhday petermaurin communism capitalism industrialism society efficiency ideology morality arthurpenty technocracy colonization slavery self-oppression self-slavery influencers working neoliberalism optimization gkchesterson hilairebelloc culture howwework capital life living socialmedia ai artificialintelligence virtualreality vr emmanuelmounier peterkropotkin nikolaiberdyaev inactivity play celebration control death karlmarx accumulation divineprovidence voluntarypoverty poverty collectivity gandhi survival giorgioagambenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2ed5d245a474/Near Future Laboratory Newsletter2025-11-27T06:30:15+00:00
https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/newsletters/2025/w48-y25/
robertogrecoThis reflection was prompted by Episode 006: The Rumour That Cost Thirty-Five Billion Dollars and Created A Data Center Radar [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/006-the-rumour-that-cost-thirty-five-billion-dollars/id1829175205?i=1000732105524 ] from Radha and Tobias' “Futurish” podcast which gets into hyperstition in the context of a real-world rumor. Give it a listen!
Oh, and parenthetically, if you want a weird “Wayne's World”-like podcast on Mark Fisher you might be interested in these guys who are like Brick and Brack arm chair interpreters of Fisher's work: Lost Futures: A Mark Fisher Podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-futures-a-mark-fisher-podcast/id1685663806 ]. These guys are as infuriating as they are entertaining, perhaps without knowing they are either.
“Popularized” might be overstating things a bit as the CCRU was always a bit of an obscure, anonymous and underground affair. More punk that trad academic, I would say. But the idea of hyperstition has since been taken up by various thinkers and writers interested in the intersections of culture, technology, and speculative fiction. It's relevant to the kinds of discussions we have here and a pathway to connecting material reality to fiction — or how to begin becoming future.
For those who are Fisherarians, as in Mark Fisher-arian, the late cultural theorist and writer who explored themes of capitalism, culture, and ideology, hyperstition is a concept that resonates with his work. Fisher often discussed how certain cultural phenomena and narratives could shape societal beliefs and behaviors, aligning with the idea of hyperstition as a force that can influence reality through its circulation and acceptance.
I was certainly influenced by Fisher's writing and lectures, introduced to him indiretly during my studies at UCSC in the early 1990s where and when I was trying to develop some kind of scaffolding that could be erected such as to contain the kinds of cultural objects I was boyishly fascinated with — computers, software, games, etc. — and their meaning beyond “whoa..cool!”. An engineer encountering the often in my mind abstract cultural theories of Deleuze and Guattari, Zizek, Haraway, Jameson and others, this seemed a fun and challenging way to ground them to popular discourse. Fisher's exploration of how culture and ideology intersected with capitalism and technology provided a framework for understanding the dynamics of contemporary society, and undergirded a batch of work I did on the video games SimCity™ and Daryl Gates' Police Quest IV: Open Season
The structure of this combination of hype and superstition is a useful way to think about how certain ideas or narratives can gain traction and influence reality. It suggests that when a concept is widely circulated and believed, it can create a feedback loop that reinforces its own existence and impact. This can be seen in various cultural phenomena, such as conspiracy theories, urban legends, or even technological trends, where the belief in the idea itself contributes to its manifestation in the real world.
Understanding the pheneonmon of hyperstition can provide insights into how cultural narratives shape our perceptions of reality and influence our actions. It highlights the power of belief and storytelling in shaping the world around us, and the ways in which fiction can become intertwined with reality through collective acceptance and action.
Beyond understanding the pheneomenon, we might want to operationalize the principles, right? I mean — if this is a kind of lever or monkey wrench how might we use it to our advantage? How can you tell stories about worlds you want to inhabit, or engage in, or debate and discuss? And how can you do that if your primary gifts and medium are not prose-based story telling? Can you do this through design, through objects, through events, through experiences?
These are questions that the Near Future Laboratory has been exploring for decades now through design fiction, speculative design, and other practices that seek to create tangible representations of possible futures.
This goes beyond abstraction speculation because I actually prototype in material. Not just ideas but things that can be held, used, experienced, and that form the basis for product design, concept development, and strategic foresight.
By crafting artifacts, scenarios, and experiences that embody speculative ideas, we can help ourselves and our organizations see the unseen opportunities and test new concepts in a way that is more engaging and impactful than traditional methods of ideation or brainstorming.
Want to discover more about how this approach to design fictional prototyping can help your team and organization gain a bit of future sight? Get in touch and let's have a conversation about how we can work together to explore the futures you want to create."]]>julianbleecker designfiction hyperstition markfisher ai artificialintelligence slowai ccru nearfuturelaboratory 1990s capitalism culture ideology félizguattari zizek donnaharaway fredericjameson technology ucsc deleuze&guattari gillesdeleuzehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d10e0749a3ed/Requiem for Early Blogging2025-11-26T01:37:37+00:00
https://www.elizabethspiers.com/requiem-for-early-blogging/
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https://techwontsave.us/episode/303_peter_thiel_is_the_real_antichrist_w_gil_duran
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musks-grokipedia-is-a-warning.html
robertogrecoChatGPT shouldn’t have political bias in any direction. People use ChatGPT as a tool to learn and explore ideas. That only works if they trust ChatGPT to be objective… We created a political bias evaluation that mirrors real-world usage and stress-tests our models’ ability to remain objective… Based on this evaluation, we find that our models stay near-objective on neutral or slightly slanted prompts, and exhibit moderate bias in response to challenging, emotionally charged prompts.
The company was announcing the development of “an automated evaluation setup to continually track and improve objectivity over time,” using “approximately 500 prompts spanning 100 topics and varying political slants,” across “five nuanced axes of bias.” If the goal of Grok is to express a specific bias against prevailing progressive narratives by reflecting right-wing views — or just to stay in line with the values and priorities of its creator — well, that’s achievable. (It’s also something LLMs are well suited for as a technology.) In contrast, the goal OpenAI has set for itself is “objectivity,” in practice or at least reputation, which, for a chatbot tasked with talking about everything to everyone, really isn’t.
As novel and versatile as LLM-based chatbots are, their relationship to the outside world is recognizably and deeply editorial, like a newspaper or, more recently, an algorithmically sorted-and-censored social network. (It’s helpful to think of OpenAI’s “bias evaluation” process, or Grokipedia’s top-down reactionary political correctness, as less of a systemic audit than a straightforward edit.) What ChatGPT says about politics — or anything — is ultimately what the people who created it say it should say, or allow it to say; more specifically, human beings at OpenAI are deciding what neutral answers to those 500 prompts might look like and instructing their model to follow their lead. OpenAI’s incoherent appeal to objective neutrality is an effort to avoid this perception and one that anyone who runs a major media outlet or social-media platform knows won’t fool people for long.
OpenAI would probably prefer not to be evaluated by these punishing and polarized standards, so, as many other organizations have tried before, it’s claiming to exist outside them. On that task, I suspect ChatGPT will fail.
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Luckily for OpenAI, ChatGPT’s future doesn’t hinge on creating a universal chatbot that everyone sees as unbiased — it’ll settle for being seen as useful, entertaining, or reasonable and trustworthy to enough people. Research papers and “bias evaluations” aside, the product and its users are veering away from shared experiences and into personalized, bespoke forms of interaction in which chatbots gradually profile their users and provide them with information that’s more relevant to their specific experiences or more sensitive to their personal preferences or both. Frequent chatbot users know that popular models can drift into sycophancy, which is a powerful and general sort of bias. They also know they can be commanded to inhabit different identities, political or otherwise (you can ask ChatGPT to talk to you like a dead French poststructuralist if you want or ask it to talk to you like Mr. Beast. Soon, reportedly, you’ll be able to ask it to pleasure you sexually). Still, for all their dazzling newness and versatility, AI chatbots are in many ways continuing the project started by late-stage social media, extending the logic of machine-learning recommendations into a familiar human voice. It’s not just that output neutrality is difficult to obtain for systems like this. It’s that they’re incompatible with the very concept.
In that sense, Grokipedia — like X and Grok — is also a warning. Sure, it’s part of an excruciatingly public example of one man’s gradual isolation from the world inside a conglomerate-scale system of affirming, adulatory, and ideologically safe feeds, chatbots, and synthetic media, a situation that would be funny if not for Musk’s desire and power to impose his vision on the world. (To calibrate this a bit, imagine predicting the “Wikipedia rewritten to be more conservative by Elon Musk’s anti-PC chatbot” scenario in the run-up to, say, his purchase of Twitter. It would have sounded insane, and you would have too.) But what Musk can build for himself now is something that consumer AI tools, including his, will soon allow regular people to build for themselves, or which will be constructed for them by default: A world mediated not just by publications or social networks but by omnipurpose AI products that assure us they’re “maximally truth-seeking” or “objective” as they simply tell us what we want to hear."]]>johnherrman 2025 elonmusk grokipedia wikipedia knowledge ai artificialintelligence openai xai chatgpt llms chatbots twitter isolation socialmedia mrbeast bias censorship socialnetowrks ideology markzuckerberg antiwoke freespeech freedomofspeech centralization internet web online farright rightwing information racism race media propaganda grievance wokeismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:456f5a9fffeb/Silicon Valley’s Extortion Letter to Democrats2025-11-18T20:11:26+00:00
https://www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-valleys-extortion-letter-to-democrats/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LnHruJPPsY
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https://thedispatch.com/article/kingsnorth-book-machine-modernity/
robertogreco What distinguishes, after all, a good technology from a bad one, one made for human flourishing and one designed to push us into subservience?
Kingsnorth’s desire to condemn the information age wholesale takes for granted that it is obvious which information we do and don’t need. He mocks, for example, “the kind of people who think the Great Library of Alexandria contained ‘exabytes’ worth of information’ rather than the collected fruits of hard-won wisdom…before they ever sit down to their data sets”—yet it’s possible to think of the Alexandrian library Kingsnorth seems to venerate as no less a repository of the sinful human desire to know than that of the digital equivalent he disdains.
Likewise, to this onetime user of the blogging (and friend-making) site Livejournal, Kingsnorth’s immediate disdain for children whose “phone in your pocket allows you to make more friends in other countries than you can at school?” seems too unexamined. If we are able to create real human bonds—what else is friendship—beyond the boundaries of geography, surely that aids, rather than abets, the kind of thick communities Kingsnorth is calling for, even if it complicates their instantiation. Kingsnorth is too quick, I think, to assume that friendships, and maybe even communities, can’t arise in digital space: as a supplement to, if not supplantation of, embodied experience. Rootless cosmopolitan that I am, perhaps, I’ve found that the friendships I’ve made and sustained online (and in many cases have transitioned into offline friendships nevertheless mediated by necessity through digital correspondence) have been all the more grounded and committed for their intentionality.
Kingsnorth is at his best when he is arguing for specific acts of human flourishing (smartphone-smashing, say, or spending time contemplating nature) or against more concrete instantiations of the machine. Kingsnorth reminds us, more than once, that Christendom is dead, that Western Christendom—and the Enlightenment values of self-transcendence to which it inexorably led—contained already the seeds of its own destruction, as did, in Kingsnorth’s telling, every civilization that grew too fast and got too big for its own good. “Forget, then, about defending the West,” Kingsnorth writes. “Think instead about rebuilding a human culture from the roots.” Kingsnorth also largely successfully avoids other forms of culture war discourse, although his arguments about COVID vaccines—another “techno-fix” he opposes both as an (he believes) unproven medical invention and an example of unjust state power—risk not just tendentiousness but incoherence. How can we at once critique a society in which individual human desire to be the highest good there is, and also critique on libertarian grounds collective decision-making—including medical decision-making—that would limit human freedom in favor of the highest good?
Kingsnorth is also more compelling when he writes on another otherwise-tricky topic—gender issues—which he largely (and in my mind, fairly) treats as secondary to the wider philosophical question posed by transhumanism. Quoting heavily from both WIRED editor Kevin Kelly, and the transgender transhumanist and entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt, Kingsnorth is able to trace a good-faith version of philosophical accounts of gender and the body that both reduce, and do not reduce, identity to birth sex. While Kingsnorth takes the standard-conservative line on trans issues—that birth sex and gender are equivalent—he’s reasonably generous in understanding why different philosophical priors might yield alternative perspectives on the issue. “The battle over gender,” Kingsnorth writes, “is the deepest level of the ‘culture war,’ and as ever it is not really about culture: it is about the essence of what it means to have a human body.”
Yet, in its desire to celebrate the body over and against the machine, Kingsnorth’s book leaves me wondering what, exactly, having a body—and a mind, and a soul— does mean. That human beings are some confusing amalgam of all these things is hardly a theologically, or even historically, novel concept. Yet Kingsnorth’s book falls short of teasing out a theological anthropology that does not make us into, well, failed animals—a comparison that Against the Machine sometimes, perhaps inadvertently, implies.
“Modernity is a machine for destroying limits,” he writes. “The ideology of the Machine — the liberation of individual desire — sees our world as a blank slate to be written on afresh when the old limits of nature and culture are washed away.” But it’s also true that there is something about human beings that is separate from both nature and culture, and that something does seem to manifest itself in acts of creation and imagination. That doesn’t make the world a “blank slate”—but it does mean, I think, that we need a more nuanced account of what a creative relationship with, and human acts upon, a world that isn’t a blank slate would look like.
In Kingsnorth’s most convincing passages, he helps us see one potential answer. What if the culprit were not information, as such, nor technology, but rather desire: the harnessing of our imaginative capacities for ultimately selfish ends? What if we were to blame not, say, Project Gutenberg (or whatever the digital equivalent of the Library of Alexandria is), but dopamine-grabbing notifications and algorithmically generated advertisements and all of the other forms of attention capture to which the now-manifest noetic realm is subject? To blame the attention economy, rather than the information age?
Kingsnorth is right, I think, when it comes to where he’d like to see us go: “Love. God. Place. Culture. The profound mystery of beauty. A sense of being rooted. A feeling for land or community or cultural traditions or the unfolding of human history of generations. Song. Art.” But ars and techne are, I think, inseparable. To have one, we need a constructive—and charitable—account of the other.
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Tara Isabella Burton is the author of ‘Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians,’ ‘Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World,’ and three novels, most recently ‘Here in Avalon.’ She blogs on art, magic, enchantment, faith and technology at her Substack, The Lost Word."]]>paulkingsnorth 2025 taraisabellaburton slow luddism neoluddism luddites neoluddites resistance culture christianity rootedness humanism technology projectgutenberg socialmedia internet web online modernity ideology bodies transgender gender culturewar culturewars medicine vaccines covid-19 coronavirus panedmic enlightenment smartphones subservience ai artificialintelligence god humanity humans humanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c025f2a8350a/T12x38 - Catolicismo pop: por qué volvemos a hablar de Dios (CARNE CRUDA) - YouTube2025-11-16T23:20:45+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmDje3HfHI
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https://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/a-pedagogy-of-the-collective-from-the-soviet-union-to-latin-america-makarenko-his-life-and-work/
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http://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/zionism-as-a-fascist-ideology-zionist-relations-with-nazi-germany-by-faris-glubb/
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https://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/the-being-of-israel-is-the-non-being-of-palestine-understanding-zionism-through-the-work-of-fayez-sayegh/
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https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-jiryis-sabri-the-foundations-of-zionism
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https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/11/10/Man-Who-Tracks-Silicon-Valley-Nerd-Reich/
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https://geoeconomic.substack.com/p/spare-a-state-subsidy-for-the-chainsaw
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