frans

Palantir has very little to do with Hegel but tech CEOs like Karp love to invoke philosophy to aestheticize and sophisticate the much simpler and more vulgar projects that they are undertaking. In Hegel’s ideal state, you wouldn’t need perpetual surveillance because members of the state would themselves identify with the state and would no sooner act against the state’s interests than their own, the two being convergent and continuous with one another. In a confused, deracinated “civil society” in which neighbors do not speak the same language or share anything tangible in common, an external ‘state’ that stands apart from its individual members, replete with Flock cameras on every street corner, is required to keep people in tow, to instill obedience through a form of suspended terror and violence.

17 euro kwijt voor een boek dat is geschreven met ChatGPT 😭 @robinteslaa

This is like playing Mozart on MIDI. It also doesn’t work.