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Posted 6 months ago
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Posted 7 months ago

Carmen Hermosillo had become one of the earliest believers in the new community of cyberspace. Her online name, was “Humdog”, and she lived on the west coast. But then she lost faith, and she posted an attack that caused a sensation online.

“It is fashionable to suggest” she wrote. “that cyberspace is some “island of the blessed” where people are free to indulge and express their Individuality.”

“This is not true.”

“I have seen many people spill out their emotions, their guts online, and I did so myself until I began to see I had commodified myself.”

“Commodification means that you turn something into a product that has a money value. In the 19th century commodities were made in factories by workers who were mostly exploited. But I created my interior thoughts as commodities for the corporations that owned the board that I was posting to, like CompuServe or AOL, and that commodity was then sold on to other consumer entities as entertainment.”

“Cyberspace” she wrote, “is a black hole, it absorbs energy and personality and then re-presents it as an emotional spectacle. It is done by businesses that commodify human interaction and emotion, and we are getting lost in the spectacle.”

Carmen Hermosillo, (Humdog [1994]) - Paraphrased by Adam Curtis [Repost of the original full version here]
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Posted 8 months ago
There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness.
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Posted 8 months ago
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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Posted 11 months ago
According to survey by data-protection company Mozy, 73% of bosses have a relaxed attitude to time keeping because staffers are working flexible hours beyond 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. In fact, one in five employees has already checked their work email by 7:00 a.m. and the average employee has already spent up to 46 minutes working before they arrive at the office.
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Posted 1 year ago
Tired of staring at a computer all day? Well, go back a 100 years and you’d have been working in a grueling factory all day. Go back another century and you’d have been tending a field all day. Go back 500 years and more than half of your children would have died before the age of five. And yet you’d *still* be using all kinds of human-made objects and systems. As we read yesterday, humans may have been deploying fire for 1 MILLION YEARS. No matter how far back you go, you’ll find us shaping our environment. It is technology all the way down.

Alexis Madrigal, on why the alternative to 21st-century technology is not “nature” but some other technologically-mediated reality.

(Also, read Lindy West’s excellent essay on the subject.)

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Posted 1 year ago
world-shaker: waltzingmatildablog: Such a fantastic quote. Seconded. Zoom

world-shaker:

waltzingmatildablog:

Such a fantastic quote.

Seconded.

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Posted 1 year ago
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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