Futurology (and "tech"-talk more generally) is the quintessential discourse of neoliberal corporate-militarism.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015
The Future is always a parochialism, offering up rationalizations for and reassurances to incumbent elites.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015
"Accelerating change" is a slogan marketing status-quo amplification.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015
Discussions of "technology and humanity" have become the way we indulge and deny the abiding misrecognition and mistreatment between people.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015
Every futurism is a retro-futurism.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 7, 2015
@dalecarrico where all my leftist futurists at??
— lance robotson (@robotson) September 8, 2015
That's a long and interesting question, probably ultimately untweetable *but* ... @robotson "where all my leftist futurists at??"
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 8, 2015
@dalecarrico I feel that we are underrepresented.
— lance robotson (@robotson) September 8, 2015
I fear leftist futurists are not so much underrepresented but a bit deluded. Would LOVE to be shown to be wrong. @robotson
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 8, 2015
@dalecarrico @robotson Well, the internet began with "this is for everyone", but that didn't last long. So maybe you're right.
— Ian Snelgrove (@iznel7) September 8, 2015
@iznel7 @robotson Funny, I heard the internet began when academics sought a way to bloviate at one another even after a nuclear holocaust.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 8, 2015
@dalecarrico @robotson :) Perhaps I meant the WWW...
— Ian Snelgrove (@iznel7) September 8, 2015
Part of what concerns me is that futurisms may conduce to reaction, whatever the earnest and avowed politics of the futurist... @robotson
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 8, 2015
Instrumental as against political conceptions in futurology of power in the Arendtian sense are a key part of this story. @robotson
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 8, 2015
This relates to tendencies in futurist narratives of technoscientific change to determinism, triumphalism, linearity, automatism. @robotson
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 8, 2015
It conduces to reactionary idealizations of elite anti-democratic technocratic and design circumventions of political problems. @robotson
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 8, 2015
All this is apart from futurology's obvious eugenic currents, militarist incubators, unsustainable consumer-gizmo fixations... @robotson
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 8, 2015
@dalecarrico @yashalevine Exquisitely embodied by the fact that Nicholas Negroponte and John Negroponte are brothers.
— anti-epiphany (@edmondcaldwell) September 7, 2015
@dalecarrico you seem to be saying all stripes of futurisms are inherently guarding the status quo and are also inadequate as critical tools
— lance robotson (@robotson) September 8, 2015
@robotson That is my suspicion and my fear.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 8, 2015
@dalecarrico I'm inclined to agree. Futurism is most useful, to my thinking, as a satirical foil
— lance robotson (@robotson) September 8, 2015
@robotson I have found the absurdity of futurisms, in both their mainstream infomercial and extreme robocultic guises, a bit hard to parody.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 8, 2015
@dalecarrico Poe's law would probably get you booked for a TED talk.
— lance robotson (@robotson) September 8, 2015
@robotson I would rather eat my own poo.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 8, 2015
@dalecarrico is seriously bumming me out about futurism right now ... <3
— lance robotson (@robotson) September 8, 2015
Sect. 3 of https://t.co/zEbkdT77SB elaborates connection of futurism and neoliberalism that people are RTing, if you're curious for a case.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) September 8, 2015
1 comment:
> Part of what concerns me is that futurisms may conduce to reaction. . .
Recognition of the need to provoke a reaction:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_Basilisk
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In April 2014, MIRI posted a request for LessWrong commenters to think up scary scenarios
of artificial intelligence taking over the world, for marketing purposes.[53]
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http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/k4h/request_for_concrete_ai_takeover_mechanisms/
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. . .because concrete, plausible pictures of doom are probably more motivating
grounds for concern than abstract arguments. . .
We would especially like suggestions which are plausible given technology that
normal scientists would expect in the next 15 years. So limited involvement of
advanced nanotechnology and quantum computers would be appreciated.
We welcome partial suggestions, e.g. 'you can take control of a self-driving car
from the internet - probably that could be useful in some schemes'.
Thank you!
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"Normal scientists", eh? As opposed to. . .?
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