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Patreon Preview – 125. TMK Book Club 2.0, Chapter 5

This Machine Kills

English - December 19, 2021 04:30 - 11 minutes - 27.2 MB
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Previous Episode: 124. The Assassination of Thinking by the Coward Web3
Next Episode: 126. A Tech Reckoning (ft. Matt Lech, David Griscom)

We wrap up with the last chapter of Wendy H.K. Chun’s book, Control and Freedom. We discuss: the book’s value as a lens for analyzing current developments and discourses about “web3” — conceptions of the internet as both a public and private space — the general cultural affect of paranoia and its relation to techno-power — a self-crit session on the utility of “emerging technologies” as a term — Chun’s case studies of facial recognition and webcams. You can grab a pdf of Chun’s book here: https://au1lib.org/book/2074091/cc12a3

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