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(DIR) Post #AtVVhdob1GFNs6fpRI by estelle@techhub.social
2024-01-24T14:11:42Z
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Read below a discussion about the convergence of market and technology. Follow #technocriticism
(DIR) Post #AtVVhetF1TYbCnr3Jo by estelle@techhub.social
2024-01-24T14:19:49Z
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"The authorities say they have no choice but to move forward and keep up. Produce more and more, faster and faster. In reality, technological #progress has got out of hand. It's out of our control. And we should be the ones adapting to its frenetic pace. The ecological crisis has become a pretext for increasing global competition, the technological race and social and environmental dumping"."What green growth offers us as a 'solution' is ever more markets and technology, […] a frantic quest for efficiency and rationalisation, with no regard for sensitivity or the quest for harmonious relations with others and with nature.""With green industry, new tax credits and guarantees will be granted. Not 12 billion euros for workers and pensions, but hundreds of billions for big business."Hélène Tordjman (in fr) : https://reporterre.net/Helene-Tordjman-M-Macron-est-enferme-dans-son-delire-productiviste#neoliberalism #acceleration #accelerate #agriculture #greenGrowth #sustainableDevelopment #technocriticism #convergence
(DIR) Post #AtVVhgAeGF4jB50T5c by estelle@techhub.social
2024-01-25T07:16:53Z
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“The idea of effecting decentralization while maintaining technical progress is purely utopian.”~ Jacques Ellul#productivity #efficiency #criticalTheory #Ellul #acceleration #accelerate #sustainability #sustainableDevelopment #technocriticism #convergence #quotes #degrowth #governance #agriculture
(DIR) Post #AtVVhhmGHskyA1c1M8 by estelle@techhub.social
2024-02-24T07:48:41Z
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"Until degrowth becomes an urgent and imperative watchword, industrial capitalism will continue to interpret the demands of social movements as technical challenges"."We cannot be satisfied with improving the energy efficiency of data storage while Internet traffic increases exponentially. We cannot continue to deploy satellites en masse on the assumption that some of them will provide a better understanding of deforestation..."~ Andreas Malm in "How to sabotage a pipeline"#productivity #efficiency #criticalTheory #crush #acceleration #accelerate #sustainability #sustainableDevelopment #technocriticism #quotes #degrowth #capitalism #book #engineering #improvements #technique #technology #Malm #extractivism #metals #energy #infrastructures
(DIR) Post #AtVVhjxgAP4sw0yAQi by estelle@techhub.social
2024-03-25T20:02:49Z
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“The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood… Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behaviour.”― Herbert Marcuse#entertainment #products #production #output #consumption #productivity #efficiency #criticalTheory #acceleration #accelerate #technocriticism #quotes #capitalism #technique #technology #Marcuse #institutionsDeceive
(DIR) Post #AtVVhlh5j2zuJ9Dwqu by estelle@techhub.social
2024-03-26T19:48:29Z
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"Reclaiming the use of digital devices at the receiving end does nothing to change the whole technical system. Digital technologies cannot be reclaimed, because they are the fruit of a mass society, of a society of experts, constituted of domination and exploitation, of complex and gigantic infrastructures from which citizens can only be dispossessed."Julia Laïnae, Nicolas Alep in "Contre l'alternumérisme", 2020#commoditization #commodities #acceleration #accelerate #criticalTheory #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #tech #BigTech #technology #book #quote #quotes
(DIR) Post #AtVVhnDk38i12hVXNo by estelle@techhub.social
2024-10-17T17:52:32Z
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"Technique is no longer some uncertain and incomplete intermediary between humanity and the natural milieu. The latter is totally dominated and utilized (in Western society). Technique now constitutes a fabric of its own, replacing nature." – Jacques Ellul in “Recherche pour une Ethique dans une société technicienne,” Morale et Enseignement, 1983, page 7#acceleration #convergence #commoditization #commodities #accelerate #criticalTheory #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #tech #BigTech #technology #book #quote #quotes #agriculture
(DIR) Post #AtVVhoZl0luhFGodKy by estelle@techhub.social
2025-02-23T12:31:57Z
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"Humanity has endured for 1 million years for one simple reason: it is bound by limits. It is effectively regulated, and it is this regulation that lies at the heart of its genius.[…]"Capital very quickly relied on the sciences, and this was not simply the result of cultural impregnation."Classical science separates and analyses. All capital relies on this powerful process and adds to it control through quantification. A principle of devitalisation at the heart of modern technique."This thanatocratic principle of capital, without which it is nothing, takes place in three stages: privatisation of the means, industrialisation of devitalisation, and being as a commodity."Thread in French: https://piaille.fr/@Ciriaco/113083670282268574 by @Ciriaco#acceleration #convergence #commoditization #commodities #accelerate #criticalTheory #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #tech #BigTech #technology #agriculture #science #supremacy #climateBreakdown #globalHeating #digitalization #engineers #separation #data #climateCollapse