Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Christian Mortalism, Labour Power, Gestell
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Put another way, what might the world look like if we manage to develop everything we"re striving for, and social life only gets worse: this scenario is just as unlikely as the singularity. The idea of technological change as quasi-autonomous, driven by some process of. [self-production] or self-organization, allows many aspects of contemporary social reality to be accepted as necessary, unalterable circumstances, akin to facts of nature. Hae-joo led me to a stylish caf platform where he bought a styro of starbuck for himself and an aqua for me. He xplained that under the enrichment statutes, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month hoarding is anti-corpocratic crime. Atlas: the soul also allows you purchase things and have a bank account, one can track and monitor the movements of one"s immortal soul. Nea so copros is poisoning itself to death. Its soil is polluted, its rivers lifeless, its air toxloaded, its food supplies riddled with rogue genes.