tag: criticism

Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto as Redaction Poetry

Yesterday, the influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published what he titled The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, an anti-regulation anti-ethics hyper-capitalist growth-obsessed screed that, sadly, highlights the thinking that’s led to so much exploitative toxic tech. Instead of writing a point-by-point …

Works Discussed in New Aesthetic Book from Institute of Network Cultures

Flexible Pixels, Interactive Robotic Painting Machine, and Computers Watching Movies are discussed in this book by Scott Conteras-Koterbay and Lukas Mirocha

How the Technological Design of Facebook Homogenizes Identity and Limits Personal Representation

How Facebook transforms individuals into instruments of capital, limits self-description, and controls one’s visual presentation of self identity.

The Ideology of Defense and Paul Shambroom’s Photographs of the Bomb

Download the paper (PDF) Abstract Strategic and tactical nuclear weapons technology dominates United States foreign policy. Originally invented to end World War II, expanded to fight a cold war, and further developed after that war for “deterrence,” these weapons’ existence …