1 Apart from its serial predictive failure, sf/science confusion, lack of standards, promotional hype, futurology is about deranging frames:
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 23, 2015
2 So, problem caused by attacks on/abandonment of organized labor, deregulation, regressive taxes futurologically framed TECH STEALING JOBS.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 23, 2015
3 Then Basic Income (shorn of entitlements to ensure equity, indeed dismantlement is SELLING POINT) futurologically framed as its technofix.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 23, 2015
4 The Basic Income futurological technofix is, of course, a recipe for feudalism masquerading as emancipation.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 23, 2015
5 (recall how futurology peddled precarity of temp work as "liberty/flexibility" and exploitation of outsourcing as "free participation")
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 23, 2015
Slippage of outsourcing into crowdsourcing isn't merely figurative: outsourcing also labor exploitation framed as "tech," software enabled.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 25, 2015
6 Basic Income in futurological discourse "guarantees" subsistence without rights or entitlements to secure consent or equity-in-diversity.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 23, 2015
7 Inevitable failure of freedom and stealthed right-wing deception of futurological technofix here is symptom not substance of the trouble:
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 23, 2015
8 Before offering its false SOLUTION futurology frames PROBLEMS in a way that renders stakes and historicity unavailable to deliberation.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 23, 2015
Techno-fixation: before the proposal of a facile techno-fix, always first a facile framing of problems in ahistorical "tech"-fixated terms.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 25, 2015
Every "DriverlessCar" has a techbro in the driver's seat. This is the appeal to those who prefer it to real mass public transport proposals.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 24, 2015
MOOCs another instance in which reactionary politics are futurologically framed into "tech progress," support of public good into "luddism."
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 25, 2015
To grasp "life extension" take medicine (to which futurists contribute nothing) then add neologisms & wish-fulfillment fantasies. That's it.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 24, 2015
So long as you're fixated on daydreams of nanobotic super-immunity & glossy brochure genetic fixes you aren't working for healthcare access.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 25, 2015
Never forget Mike Davis's anti-futurological quip that the world's greatest miracle medicine is access to clean water.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 25, 2015
Again, futurology deranges political/infrastructural realities of healthcare via superlative "tech," in scam informercial miracle cadences.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 25, 2015
9 The work of futurology is to deny historical struggle, stakeholder specificity, material affordance in service of status quo amplification
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 23, 2015
10 Futurology remains the quintessential neoliberal discourse, a reductio of marketing norms and forms suffusing the neoliberal imaginary.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 23, 2015
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