The Diagram of Onopticon: A Critical Analysis of Affective Control, Infrastructural Domination, and Ethical Resistance in the Surveillance ApparatusAuthor: Hakkı Tan
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5277974#
#Onopticon #Surveillance #AffectiveControl #InfrastructuralDomination #AlgorithmicSovereignty #Ontology #Panopticon #Psychopolitics #EthicalResistance #Homovictimus
#Psychopolitics
The Diagram of Onopticon: A Critical Analysis of Affective Control, Infrastructural Domination, and Ethical Resistance in the Surveillance ApparatusAuthor: Hakkı Tan
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5277974#
#Onopticon #Surveillance #AffectiveControl #InfrastructuralDomination #AlgorithmicSovereignty #Ontology #Panopticon #Psychopolitics #EthicalResistance #Homovictimus
"The emergence of personal AI agents represents a form of cognitive control that moves beyond blunt instruments of cookie tracking and behavioral advertising toward a more subtle form of power: the manipulation of perspective itself. Power no longer needs to wield its authority with a visible hand that controls information flows; it exerts itself through imperceptible mechanisms of algorithmic assistance, molding reality to fit the desires of each individual. It’s about shaping the contours of the reality we inhabit.
This influence over minds is a psychopolitical regime: It directs the environments where our ideas are born, developed, and expressed. Its power lies in its intimacy—it infiltrates the core of our subjectivity, bending our internal landscape without us realizing it, all while maintaining the illusion of choice and freedom. After all, we are the ones asking AI to summarize that article or produce that image. We may have the power of the prompt, but the real action lies elsewhere: the design of the system itself. And the more personalized the content, the more effectively a system can predetermine the outcomes."
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-agents-personal-assistants-manipulation-engines/
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIAgents #Algorithms #AlgorithmicGovernance #PsychoPolitics #AIEthics #Manipulation
in my new piece for SublationMagazine I discuss #psychopolitics of #ArtificialIntelligence drawing from theory of #fetish and #perversion [Lacan, Freud] to theory of #political ideology and #capitalism [Zizek, Marx] and #decolonial theory [Mbembe, Fanon]. Full article here: https://sublationmedia.com/psychopolitics-of-ai-from-fetishism-to-brutalism/ cc @asrg
... It is not voiced by engaged citizens so much as by passive onlookers. Participation now amounts to grievance and complaint. With that, the society of transparency, inhabited by onlookers and consumers, has given rise to a *spectator democracy*." (/fin)
#neoliberalism #politics #democracy #consumerism #psychopolitics
... The *transparency* demanded of politicians today is anything but a *political* demand. Transparency is not called for in *poltical* decision-making processes; no consumer is interested in that. Instead, and above all, the imperative of transparency serves to expose or unmask politicians, to make them an item of scandal. The call for transparency presupposes occupying the position of a shocked spectator. (3/)
#neoliberalism #politics #democracy #consumerism #psychopolitics
... *They react only passively* to politics: grumbling and complaining, as consumers do about a commodity or service they do not like. Politicians and parties follow this logic of consumption too. They have to 'deliver'. In the process. they become nothing more than suppliers; their task is to satisfy voters who are consumers or customers. (2/)
#neoliberalism #politics #democracy #consumerism #psychopolitics
This from "Psychopolitics - Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power" by Byung-Chul Han:
"Neoliberalism makes citizens into consumers. The freedom of the citizen yields to the passivity of the consumer. As consumers, today's voters have no real interest in politics -- in actively shaping the community. They possess neither the will nor the ability to participate in communal, political action (1/)
#neoliberalism #politics #democracy #consumerism #psychopolitics
People who fail in the neoliberal achievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system.
Being free means nothing other than self-realization with others.
For Marx, individual freedom represents a ruse – a trick of capital.
The neoliberal subject has no capacity for relationships with others that might be *free of purpose*.
Nor do entrepreneurs know what purpose-free friendship would even look like.
The I is now subjugating itself to internal limitations and self-constraints, which are taking the form of compulsive achievement and optimization.
Today, we do not deem ourselves subjugated *subjects*, but rather *projects*: always refashioning and reinventing ourselves.
The trillion dollar question of our times. I suppose there would be goals as well, similar to 10000 steps a day, something like 5 out of seven days happy, with a smiling selfie as a proof.
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