We often focus on the negative or positive impacts of algorithms. But is this a distraction from how power is actually deployed through them?
We often focus on the negative or positive impacts of algorithms. But is this a distraction from how power is actually deployed through them?
The alternatives we imagine are products of the times in which we live. A review of Peter Frase’s book Four Futures.
“The old notions of social divisions somehow seem to radically over-simplify what is happening or seem outmoded as a framework for coherent explanation.”
For Mason and others networks are a key liberating tool in moving beyond capitalist relations, but networks are not inherently democratising nor free of hierarchy.
To be measured was once a sign of failure. It is now not only common place, we frequently measure ourselves publicly, and voluntarily.
Will new technologies turn people into passive human beings?
