I am publishing a long-form cultural criticism and memoir essay about how the #humanities mitigate alienation from both meaningful cultural agency and life-affirming psychospiritual agency using #ostranenie to slow down our perception of reality.
If this sounds like your jam, stay tuned and favourite this post so I can gift it to you.
It will be available otherwise for paid subscribers on Substack and as a PDF on Gumroad.
It’s #apple time! A paradise of colours in regions with traditional #Streuobstwiesen, a very special form of #meadow #orchards meanwhile becoming rare in Europe. And I had to experience a culture clash of people who are afraid of #nature because they think it is dirty and dangerous:
https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/61d2a583-be31-40e5-8b0a-1bbab9da1335
#reconnectWithNature #apples #gardening #newsletter #soil #health #taste #food #farmLife #culturalHeritage #alienation #natureDeficit #ecoPsychology
The Marxist Lens: Burnout and the Algorithm
https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/eb12a8a9-1c40-41f7-90b9-ca128474f700
👉 "When capitalism first showed up it delivered plenty of new things which people had a need and a desire for that weren’t available under previous systems like feudalism. The greatly increased material abundance and explosions of scientific and technological innovation ushered in with the dawn of capitalism caused human quality of life to improve by leaps and bounds.
But now we’re at a point where that just isn’t happening anymore. Things have stagnated, and we’re starting to backslide. People are getting dumber, sicker, lonelier, and more and more miserable. And the profit-driven systems we live under have no answers, besides throwing increasingly shitbrained technology at us so we can distract ourselves from how fucked up everything has gotten.
We are being driven into dystopia and annihilation by systems of our own making. We’re meant to be the smartest species on earth, but we locked ourselves in our invention — a self-reinforcing labor camp that makes us miserable — and then we get all huffy when people dare to question if it’s the only way of doing things. Literally every other species is smarter than us. Amoebas are having a better time of it.
This will change when humanity replaces capitalism with something better, in the same way we replaced feudalism with the superior system of capitalism. I don’t know what that system is going to look like, but it’s going to have to involve a move from a model that is driven by competition to one that is driven by collaboration." 👈
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/capitalism-is-shoving-ai-down-our
#Capitalism #Feudalism #Alienation #WageSlavery #Collaboration
Nous utilisons l'IA pour penser moins. La cogitation est coûteuse ; donc :
• plus nous utilisons l'IA,
• plus nous nous déchargeons du traitement,
• moins nous réfléchissons,
• plus notre pensée devient superficielle.
Références : http://data.yt/kit/comment-fait-on-l-ia.html#comment-utiliser-lia
in English: https://social.coop/@eric/115419093175640321
#éducation #enseignement #enseignementSupérieur #risque #IA #IAGénérative #alienation #penséeCritique #confiance #croyances #agents #agentsIA
We use AI to think less. Cogitation is costly; so:
• the more we use AI,
• the more we offload processing,
• the less we ponder,
• the shallower our thinking becomes.
References: http://data.yt/kit/how-ai-is-made.html#how-to-use-ai
#alienation #estrangement #criticalThinking #education #higherEd #AIRisks #GenAI #GenerativeAI #trust #beliefs #AIAgents #agenticAI
A quotation from Octavia Butler
All struggles
Are essentially
power struggles.
Who will rule,
Who will lead,
Who will define,
refine,
confine,
design,
Who will dominate.
All struggles
Are essentially
power struggles,
and most
are no more intellectual
than two rams
knocking their heads together.
Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
Parable of the Sower, ch. 9, epigraph (1993)
More info about this quote: wist.info/butler-octavia/79891…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #octaviabutler #octaviabutlerquotes #alienation #law #lawandorder #lawlessness #patriotism #revolution #rights #ruleoflaw #scofflaw
I know the American People are much attached to their Government; — I know they would suffer much for its sake; — I know they would endure evils long and patiently, before they would ever think of exchanging it for another. Yet, notwithstanding all this, if the laws be continually despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in their persons and property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the alienation of their affections from the Government is the natural consequence; and to that, sooner or later, it must come.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1838-01-27), Young Men’s Lyceum, Springfield, Illinois
More info about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7988…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #lincoln #alienation #law #lawandorder #lawlessness #patriotism #revolution #rights #ruleoflaw #scofflaw
Le cycle de la domination : dette, travail, contrôle et dépossession dans le capitalisme contemporain
Comprendre la domination aujourd’hui, c’est saisir la boucle où dette, travail, peur et contrôle s’enchaînent pour fabriquer des subjectivités gouvernées. #Dette #Travail #Contrôle #Aliénation #Gouvernementalité #Capitalisme Ce schéma synthétise les grands ressorts de la domination dans la société capitaliste contemporaine. Il met au jour le cycle par lequel la…
La dette : captation des subjectivités et nouvelle forme d’aliénation capitaliste
Maurizio Lazzarato éclaire comment la dette devient une technique essentielle de gouvernement des subjectivités capitalistes, dès la naissance (logement), se prolongeant par le travail (Jappe) et l’autoentreprenariat de soi (Han, Foucault). #Lazzarato #Dette #Subjectivité #Néocolonialisme #Aliénation Maurizio Lazzarato a apporté un éclairage fondamental sur la dette comme dispositif de…
Henri Lefebvre and the Colonization of Everyday Life: Extension of Advanced Capitalism Critique
Lefebvre analyzes how capitalism colonizes everyday life, transforming rhythms, signs, and private spaces into fetishistic alienation. This process shapes subjectivities conforming to global capitalist logics. #Lefebvre #EverydayLife #Alienation #Capitalism Henri Lefebvre develops a profound analysis of the colonization of everyday life that extends and embodies the critique…
Industrialization Critique: From Mumford’s Megamachine to Algorithmic Taylorism
De la mégamachine de Mumford au taylorisme algorithmique, l’industrialisation a transformé l’humain en appendice de la machine. Une critique de l’aliénation, toujours d’actualité. #industrialisation #aliénation #Mumford #Taylor #philosophie From Mumford’s megamachine to algorithmic Taylorism, industrialization has transformed humans into appendages of the machine. A critique of alienation…
Примус до успіху ...
Синтія Флері
L'injonction à la réussite ...
Cynthia Fleury
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/bujapozahu
#успіх #відчуження #психологія #суспільство #Флері
#success #alienation #psychology #society #Fleury
Přijít domů a scrollovat je wet dream kapitalismu, neboť vyděláváte někomu jinému peníze, zatímco máte volno. Tudíž pracujete, ale zadarmo. Kéž by se toho dožil Lefebvre… #alienation
Bernanos and the Civilization of Machines: When Technology Alienates Humans
#Bernanos saw #technology as an #autonomousSystem that alienates #humans, destroys #innerLife, and turns #human beings into #economicCogs. He denounced the #lossOfFreedom and meaning in a #world obsessed with #efficiency. #quantophrenia #instrumentalReason #alienation In La France contre les robots (1947), Georges Bernanos delivers a visionary critique of technocratic modernity. For him,…
« Chaque alerte est un coup, chaque vibreur, un cri. » 📱
Un vers de mon poème "Le Démon Pixelisé", qui explore notre relation toxique aux écrans et cette lueur qui tenaille.
#poésie #mélancolie #technologie #aliénation
Découvrez le poème ici https://lesverssecretsdedidierguy.blogspot.com/2025/10/le-demon-pixelise.html
Good Movie: Smoke Signals
"Any similarity to actual persons, living, dead, or indigenous, is purely coincidental."
rustyring.blogspot.com/2013/02/good...
#alienation, #FirstNations, #GoldSide, #movie, #review, #ShermanAlexie, #Spokane, #Zen
Good Movie: Smoke Signals
Good Movie: Smoke Signals
"Any similarity to actual persons, living, dead, or indigenous, is purely coincidental."
http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2013/02/good-movie-smoke-signals.html
#alienation, #FirstNations, #GoldSide, #movie, #review, #ShermanAlexie, #Spokane, #Zen
Good Movie: Smoke Signals
"Any similarity to actual persons, living, dead, or indigenous, is purely coincidental."
http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2013/02/good-movie-smoke-signals.html
#alienation, #FirstNations, #GoldSide, #movie, #review, #ShermanAlexie, #Spokane, #CindySherman
From Factory Despotism to the Man-Appendage: A Critique of Labor in Industrial Society
Harry #Braverman denounces the “#factoryDespotism”: under industrial #capitalism, the worker loses all autonomy, subjected to the logic of the #machine and #control. Michel #Beaud starkly summarizes: “Man is nothing but an appendage of the #machine.” #Alienation, loss of #meaning, #systemicDomination: a deep dive into the #critique of modern #labor. #modernity #Industry #Sociology…
