Big tech: Thomas Hylland Eriksen: The planet of apps – how the smartphone changed the world
The planet of apps is probably one of the richest things you can now read about how we humans "sew together" with communication technology. But what about surveillance?
In a book that is both wild, elegant and utopian, accelerator Mark Alizart sees bitcoin as the very royal road to a classless society and a better future.
BOOK EXCERPT: Armenian Avanessian: Acceleration (anthology, excerpt)
No serious policy in our time can remain defensive if it is to win. The reader is encouraged to see the possibilities for a liberated and solidary future in the extension of the capitalist-driven development.
Several thinkers believe that it is possible for what they call a rather complacent left to carve out a better and freer future through capitalism and technology.
PHILOSOPHY: Armenian Avanessian: Future Metaphysics
We are now in the violence of the future: the most important thing in life is increasingly something that has not happened yet. Philosophy must re-evaluate its old metaphysical categories.
For the children of the new millennium, conservatism is a dead ideology. And above neoliberalism, a new communist realism is now taking shape among young Britons.