Posts by estelle@techhub.social
(DIR) Post #At9vjBXx64BhGfcvtg by estelle@techhub.social
2024-09-23T21:08:52Z
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William Hirst says that a #narrative that leaves out information “induces forgetting of the unmentioned material.”#Talking about other parts of the story actively leads people to forget what is not discussed. “We seem to have a brain that is designed to build a collective memory around collective remembering and collective forgetting,” he explains. “Why? It’s adaptive. We’re social creatures oriented toward our in-group and away from out-groups. Memory is designed to reinforce our in-group membership.”https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/trump-pandemic-amnesia/ @psychology @socialpsych @histodons#conversations #memory #Trump #campaign #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #pandemic #pandemics #Covid19 #humans #psychology #remembering
(DIR) Post #At9vjCw5vn5rZpvjAO by estelle@techhub.social
2025-04-16T19:00:07Z
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a few notes on a Linda Rising's talk"Realize up front that this is hard".Cognitive dissonance: contradictory "evidence" causes severe cognitive discomfort.* We are not rational decision-makers* but we are good at explaining after-the-fact why we made a decision – a pattern called rationalization.Two thirds of people will not consider an idea until "somebody they know pretty well, is doing it, is happy with it, talks about it […] so maybe i might think about it".To convince,* you must address: "What's in it for me?" – requires empathy;* you can use the values of your opponent. (Loyalty or fairness?)A pattern of personal touch: walk a mile in the other's shoesAnother pattern: "Give it a try"Another pattern: listenAnother pattern: ask for something personalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrCD1wmK9oM via @matthew#conversations #memory #neuroscience #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #morality #socialPsych #socialPsychology #facilitation #rationalization #values #influence #LindaRising #morals #principles
(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
(DIR) Post #AvQ0VfRIKmNrryyLVg by estelle@techhub.social
2023-06-16T18:07:04Z
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"My starting point was an article that appeared in an American weekly in 1954. It explained that the development of US production capacity required consumption to grow by at least 50% over the next eight years, but that people were unable to define what their additional 50% of #consumption would be made of. It was up to the #advertising and #marketing experts to arouse new needs, desires and fantasies in consumers, to load even the most trivial goods with symbols that would increase demand for them. #Capitalism needed people to have greater needs."⸺André #Gorz in "Ecologica" #consumerism #quotes #quote ⸺in #French: https://infosec.exchange/@estelle/110555204348886313
(DIR) Post #AvQ0VghHeolflrSd4S by estelle@techhub.social
2024-04-03T20:26:47Z
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"The praise of the virtues and ethics of work in a context of growing unemployment and job insecurity is part of a strategy of domination: workers must be encouraged to compete for jobs that are too scarce, to accept them under any conditions, to consider them intrinsically desirable, and to prevent workers and the unemployed from uniting to demand a different sharing of work and socially produced wealth".André Gorz in "Ecologica"#employment #labor #capitalism #Gorz #consumerism #quotes #quote #economy #work
(DIR) Post #AvQ0Vi8cIgE4EvFyJU by estelle@techhub.social
2024-08-14T20:45:37Z
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"Placing the individual and his or her ability to free him or herself from a social world perceived as shameful is not particularly subversive; it is the most widespread mode of explanation today. Far from emancipation thinking with a more markedly collective character, which envisions classes in struggle against structural dominations, this ecology is a tool for social acceptance which is all the more effective in that it presents itself as an attainable and individually gratifying #alternative".Aude Vidal in "Egologie : Ecologie, individualisme et course au bonheur" (Egology: ecology, individualism and the race for happiness) @anthropocene #believe #faith #hope #ecology #sobriety #institutionsDeceive #Vidal #ecologism #politicalEcology #degrowth #consumerism #quotes #quote #economy #shopping #capitalism #climateChange #beliefs #hegemony
(DIR) Post #AvQ0VjeYfPN0wHCzjs by estelle@techhub.social
2024-08-14T20:52:24Z
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"There is a conflation of capitalism with reality, that this is the only way things operate. There are other ways of organising our relationships with nature and each other."Patrick Bresnihan in The Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2024/08/08/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-but-curtailing-it-is-the-discussion-nobody-wants-to-have/ @anthropocene 🧶#media #press #believe #faith #hope #ecology #institutionsDeceive #ecologism #politicalEcology #degrowth #growth #consumerism #quotes #quote #economy #shopping #capitalism #climateChange #conflation #reality #globalHeating #environment #pollution
(DIR) Post #AvQ0Vr0RKS25kAV4Jk by estelle@techhub.social
2024-11-21T20:50:54Z
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[A long thread ball 🧶]#Work is a matter of power and domination.#Work should be a concern of political theory.Here is the introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries': https://libcom.org/article/problem-work-kathi-weeks @politicalscience#fetishism #manufacturingConsent #believe #beliefs #faith #hope #institutionsDeceive #politicalTheory #growth #consumerism #economy #shopping #capitalism #workCulture #jobs #KathiWeeks #imagination #feminism #Marxism #antiwork #politics #postwork #book #buying #consuming #consumption #workEthics #Foucault #bioPower #bioPolitics #MaxWeber #longRead
(DIR) Post #AxUXFRvIWpIKjVriRU by estelle@techhub.social
2024-11-01T06:54:15Z
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Every time we make a mistake, our brain opens to #learning.National schools humiliate children. A motivation is that its role is to justify the social status assigned to each.Other forms of learning, on the other hand, have no meritocratic mission: children can learn for themselves.#EstelleSays 🧶#neuroscience #raceMaking #adultDomination #patriarchy #intelligence #growth #talent #teaching #joy #willingness #antiPsych #psychology #control #merit #success #doubt #personalDevelopment #school #assignments #assessments #education #imagination #performance #ranking #SamahKaraki #meritocracy #practice #training
(DIR) Post #AxUXFTBzoEFIfagZ6m by estelle@techhub.social
2024-11-01T16:53:24Z
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THE IMPLICIT THEORIES OF INTELLIGENCE"Carol Dweck's theory of mindsets deals with implicit beliefs, states of mind that individuals have about fundamental human qualities. A ‘fixed state of mind’ (also known as entity theory) assumes that our character, #intelligence and creative ability are static givens that we cannot significantly change. Talent, according to this conception, would therefore be static, unalterable."THE EFFECT OF BELIEFS ON GOAL PERCEPTION"People with a fixed mindset, argues Carol Dweck, have an all-consuming goal of proving themselves, in the classroom, in their careers and in their relationships. Every situation calls for confirmation of their intelligence, personality or character. Every situation is evaluated: will I succeed or fail? Will I look intelligent or stupid? Will I be accepted or rejected? Will I feel like a winner or a loser?…@edutooters @psychology#learning #merit #doubt #personalDevelopment #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #practice #training
(DIR) Post #AxUXFUwpHbIe77bTk0 by estelle@techhub.social
2024-11-01T16:55:26Z
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[…]"What makes the ‘#growth mentality’ so appealing, Carol Dweck discovered, is that it creates a passion for learning rather than this thirst for approval. Its hallmark is the belief that human qualities like intelligence and creativity, and even relational capacities like love and friendship, can be cultivated through effort and practice. Not only are people with this mindset not discouraged by failure, they don't actually see themselves as failures in these situations, they see themselves as learners."Samah Karaki, doctor in #neuroscience, wrote in her book "Le talent est une fiction"@edutooters @psychology#learning #raceMaking #adultDomination #patriarchy #growth #talent #teaching #joy #willingness #antiPsych #psychology #control #merit #success #doubt #personalDevelopment #school #assignments #assessments #education #imagination #performance #ranking #SamahKaraki #meritocracy #practice #training #diversityOfPractice #institutionsDeceive #science #believe
(DIR) Post #AxUXFXqCWgmb5RWjKa by estelle@techhub.social
2025-08-23T12:08:58Z
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"The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society."James Baldwin to teachers in 1963: https://richgibson.com/talktoteachers.htm#obedience #adultDomination #growth #willingness #control #merit #personalDevelopment #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #learning #teaching #Baldwin #reform #adultism #teachers
(DIR) Post #AxUXFan7Yb6MEl6oRk by estelle@techhub.social
2025-08-23T12:23:07Z
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So here is more for you @geriruth At the end of this speech to teachers, #Baldwin restated the thesis in these words, more frequently quoted:"I began by saying that one of the paradoxes of education was that precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society. It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person."#teach #learn #class #society #obey #obedience #teaching #learning #control #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #JamesBaldwin #reform #teachers