tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post2553371556128604908..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Bernard Stiegler and the Attention EconomyPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-81906316243712903482020-08-11T17:48:20.873+01:002020-08-11T17:48:20.873+01:00“At its most simple, the modes of perception encou...“At its most simple, the modes of perception encouraged by social media participation condition the cognitive processes of its users.”<br /><br />If this were true humanity would be well and truly fucked because it would mean the world depicted in Idiocracy becoming true and who could then think at the appropriate level to then develop anything?<br /><br />In that dystopian world, Boffy’s dumb fuck alt right (ultra ultra right) bullshit around COVID-19 would be embraced as scientific truth! Maybe the beach goers are already there!<br /><br />This then has all sorts of implications, somehow some great people rise above all this and are not affected, while a mass of people descend into herd like thinking.<br /><br />maybe it could be argued this is all system generated but sounds more Nietzsche than Marx to me.<br />BCFGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-42662115719590201422020-08-11T10:19:34.033+01:002020-08-11T10:19:34.033+01:00In the simpler world of the 1920's the pioneer...In the simpler world of the 1920's the pioneer urban sociologist, Lewis Mumford, cited "technics" as, amongst other things, a way of understanding our experience of time and velocity as witnessed by someone in a city as against someone living in a deep, unchanging countryside. His main work in this area was "Technics and Civilisation" which I still have somewhere. But thanks for bringing Stiegler to my attention - I'll try to read more.david walshnoreply@blogger.com