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  1. Last 7 days
    1. : ‘Proletarian education needs first and foremost a framework, an objective space within which education can be located. The bourgeoisie, in contrast, requires an idea toward which education leads’ (Benjamin, 1999, p. 202)

      freire?

  2. Mar 2026
    1. How the US Became an International Serial Killer

      us as serial killer... that's what all those serial killer movies and tv shows were about. Not who is the good detective on the trail and where is the jail and court of justice?

    1. This conversation about the knowledge of life won’t be possible without a renewed critique of political economy,

      why doesn' he provide one?

    2. For Kant, by contrast, progress can only be moral progress, which is also the telos of reason.

      and for marx, communism is the telos of reason

    3. Rejecting faith in reason and its ends can only lead to nihilism.

      but putting too much faith in reason alone leads to disappointment which leads to nihilism .

    4. Yet the transhumanist and computationalist critique of humanism conceals a latent humanism that longs for control and domination.

      because it is part and parcel of capitalism

    5. university could be reduced

      or academics itself may be transformed into something closer to athletics, where strict rules produce the latticework for gymnastic excellence. The purposefulness of the academic work in a capitalist world is dubious at best anyway

    6. he primacy of universities in the production and dissemination of knowledge.

      so much knowledge is being produced outside of universities, not to mention in people's empirical experience, but also in labs, startups, etc.

    7. they are exempt from making errors caused by sympathy, greed, vanity, and human emotion more generally.

      they make other errors though, based on faulty cognitive models, inadequate programming and insufficient data.

    8. robustness and efficiency of infrastructures that demand

      does the robustness "demand" anything? rather it is a kind of smartness mandate which demands this and behind it is venture capital.

    9. computerization of society

      the problem is not merely "computerization", it is setting up automated systems which physically transform the world and which can be set into operation and run by algorithms.

  3. Feb 2026
  4. Dec 2025
    1. will it come across? What emotions and further reactions will it trigger?

      isn't this good? thinking about how people will respond to what you put in the public before you do it?

    2. Zapping in front of the TV took place in a comparatively sealed-off, private space and was rarely coded as social behavior.

      yeah but nielsen prototyped all this reactive surveillance

    3. platform operators bear responsibility, mainly because of the architecture and infrastructure of their offerings.

      eh? its the profit model and the availability to be remote controled by wealthy interests

  5. Sep 2025