This was very good: "Phillips doesn’t just sell a service; she sells herself. Her body and her labor are inseparable—she is both the worker and the product, the factory and the commodity. What’s sold isn’t intimacy or pleasure but access, the monetization of her personal identity. This is where Marx’s alienation reaches its peak—she doesn’t just alienate herself from her labor; she becomes the labor, the currency, the raw material, all while commodifying her very humanity."
The cognitive dissonance it takes to believe in "advocacy journalism"--a contradiction in terms if there ever was one--is mind-boggling.
Also, Glen Greenwald has seen the receipts and says the government's ultimate goal, which is fully in motion, is complete and utter total surveillance, and (paraphrasing here) that we should all be horrified at what's coming. It should be the #1 thing we're all thinking about and fighting against.
The problem is that both parties want to surveil something. They may disagree about who constitutes the threat, but they each want to spend a fortune on tech to watch someone.
Even former libertarians in the GOP want a super high-tech surveillance system on the border, with tracking devices for migrants.
We are addicted to outrage and illusions of control.
i wrote a lil piece on it too if you want to give it a go
https://open.substack.com/pub/midnightmunchies/p/notes-on-the-algorithmic-body?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=22k3m0&utm_medium=ios
This was very good: "Phillips doesn’t just sell a service; she sells herself. Her body and her labor are inseparable—she is both the worker and the product, the factory and the commodity. What’s sold isn’t intimacy or pleasure but access, the monetization of her personal identity. This is where Marx’s alienation reaches its peak—she doesn’t just alienate herself from her labor; she becomes the labor, the currency, the raw material, all while commodifying her very humanity."
The cognitive dissonance it takes to believe in "advocacy journalism"--a contradiction in terms if there ever was one--is mind-boggling.
Also, Glen Greenwald has seen the receipts and says the government's ultimate goal, which is fully in motion, is complete and utter total surveillance, and (paraphrasing here) that we should all be horrified at what's coming. It should be the #1 thing we're all thinking about and fighting against.
The problem is that both parties want to surveil something. They may disagree about who constitutes the threat, but they each want to spend a fortune on tech to watch someone.
Even former libertarians in the GOP want a super high-tech surveillance system on the border, with tracking devices for migrants.
We are addicted to outrage and illusions of control.
All true!