„Co jsi dnes udělal pro to, abys splatil dluh přírodě? Nechal jsi recyklovat všechny staré noviny? A co láhve od piva a plechovky od Coly? Nepoužíval jsi náhodou auto, když jsi mohl cestovat na kole nebo použít veřejnou dopravu? Nepoužil jsi náhodou klimatizaci, když jenom stačilo otevřít okno?“ Ideologické zájmy takové individualizace tu jsou snadno rozeznatelné: ztratím se v neustálém hlídání sebe sama, namísto toho, abych vznášel daleko relevantnější globální otázky o celé naší průmyslové civilizaci.
We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools.
The objective, says Weeks, is to highlight “the arbitrariness with which contributions to social production are and are not rewarded with wages,” thus making visible the enormous amount of unwaged reproductive labor performed by women. Against those who reject basic income as an unearned handout, we can respond that it is capitalism which arbitrarily refuses to pay for a huge proportion of the labor that sustains it.
Jediným řešením dezinformační krize, které si neplete příčinu s důsledkem a neprohloubí koncentraci moci v rukou elit, je znovu promyslet samy základy digitálního kapitalismu. Je třeba zásadně omezit vliv internetové reklamy – s jejím imperativem klikání a sdílení – na způsoby, jimiž žijeme, pracujeme a komunikujeme.
Equally, the use of pattern recognition algorithms in various tasks (e.g., diagnostics, emotion- and face-detection, surveillance) is highly susceptible to disruption. A technical understanding of machines like these is essential to understanding how to interrupt them, and any future left must be as technically fluent as it is politically fluent. In the end, what is required is an analysis of the automation trends that are restructuring production and circulation, and a strategic understanding of where new points of leverage might develop.
After all, how could someone who had grown up in a collective society get used to using the first-person singular all the time? The habitual use of “I” requires thinking of yourself as a separate entity in a society of separate entities. But in China no one is a separate entity: either you were born to a non-political peasant household or to a Communist party household. But here, in this foreign country, I had to build a world as a first-person singular – urgently.
Celebrity has a second major role: as a weapon of mass distraction. The survey published in the IJCS I mentioned earlier also reveals that people who are the most interested in celebrity are the least engaged in politics, the least likely to protest and the least likely to vote. This appears to shatter the media’s frequent, self-justifying claim that celebrities connect us to public life.
Jenže hlavní způsob, jak měřit pokrok, je ptát se, jak si vedeme v porovnání s našimi skutečnými možnostmi. Když se zeptáte, jestli máme dnes lepší zdravotní péči než před pěti sty lety, pak je odpověď samozřejmě ano. Mnohem lepší. Ale uvědomíme-li si, jaké jsou dnes technologie, jak silné jsou mnohé ekonomiky a jejich státní správa, tedy co bychom skutečně mohli dokázat, pak je trapné, že stále tolik umírá na AIDS, tuberkulózu, malárii, žloutenku. V tomto relativním pohledu je status quo zahanbující. Před pěti sty lety se s tím nedalo nic dělat, dnes ano.
Uber is reported to lose $1 billion a year only to to fight off another unprofitable company in China. It’s hard to see a massive struggle between two unprofitable companies as representative of capitalism’s leading light.