Nick Srnicek
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Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
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2015
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Platform Capitalism
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2016
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After Work: The Politics of Free Time
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2023
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#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader
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2014
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#ACCELERATE: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics
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#Akzeleration
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2013
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Accélérons ! Manifeste pour une politique accélérationniste
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Chi ci guadagna dall'intelligenza artificiale?
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Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI
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Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI
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“As we have seen, neoliberalism propagated its ideology through a division of labour â€� academics shaping education, think tanks influencing policy, and popularisers manipulating the media. The inculcation of neoliberalism involved a full-spectrum project of constructing a hegemonic worldview. A new common sense was built that came to co-opt and eventually dominate the terminology of ‘modernityâ€� and ‘freedomâ€� â€� terminology that fifty years ago would have had very different connotations. Today, it is nearly impossible to speak these words without immediately invoking the precepts of neoliberal capitalism. We all know today that ‘modernisationâ€� translates into job cuts, the slashing of welfare and the privatisation of government services. To modernise, today, simply means to neoliberalise. The term ‘freedomâ€� has suffered a similar fate, reduced to individual freedom, freedom from the state, and the freedom to choose between consumer goods.”
― Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
― Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
“Meanwhile, in the halls of academia the utopian impulse has been castigated as naive and futile. Browbeaten by decades of failure, the left has consistently retreated from its traditionally grand ambitions. To give but one example: whereas the 1970s saw radical feminism and queer manifestos calling for a fundamentally new society, by the 1990s these had been reduced to a more moderate identity politics; and by the 2000s discussions were dominated by even milder demands to have same-sex marriage recognised and for women to have equal opportunities to become CEOs.34”
― Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
― Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
“The fact that the information platform requires an extension of sensors means that it is countering the tendency towards a lean platform. These are not asset-less companies â€� far from it; they spend billions of dollars to purchase fixed capital and take other companies over. Importantly, ‘once we understand this [tendency], it becomes clear that demanding privacy from surveillance capitalists or lobbying for an end to commercial surveillance on the Internet is like asking Henry Ford to make each Model T by handâ€�.15 Calls for privacy miss how the suppression of privacy is at the heart of this business model. This tendency involves constantly pressing against the limits of what is socially and legally acceptable in terms of data collection. For the most part, the strategy has been to collect data, then apologise and roll back programs if there is an uproar, rather than consulting with users beforehand.16 This is why we will continue to see frequent uproars over the collection of data by these companies.”
― Platform Capitalism
― Platform Capitalism
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