On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org
"There is the technocratic violence of top‑down modernization, which bulldozes existing ways of life and calls the rubble progress. And there is … a baroque ethos: Accept that modernity is here to stay but refuse to live it in the pure, hygienic form that capital prefers."
Evgeny Morozov@evgenymorozov.bsky.social · 11mo agoI've got a new major essay in The Ideas Letter - on the need to rethink socialism in the age of AI www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...
"Distress finds culturally available idioms: ways of expressing suffering in a language the surrounding world will recognize … A body made of glass cannot be sent to war, cannot be married off … The delusion did real work." publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-a...
Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History
In early modern Europe, around the time when lenses began to bring the world (and heavens) into newfound focus, patients started appearing in medical records with a particular ailment: a firm belief t...
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"The imperative to use AI to create is an attempt to frame a problem of politics as a problem of efficiency. I do not need to be more efficient, I need time and freedom to read and to think and to write and to fail as we all do."
Jon@thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 8mo ago
