On “Big Data,” the best critique yet I have read - in a piecemeal fashion, I admit, through interviews and such, I guess too lazy to read a full book but will get there eventually!🤠 - comes from the most read German Philosopher of our time (oh wait, he’s Korean!): Byung-Chul Han.
Here are a couple of tidbits (you can leverage Google Translate to read the second, apparently he’s very popular in Spain!): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/30/psychopolitics-neolberalism-new-technologies-byung-chul-han-review <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/30/psychopolitics-neolberalism-new-technologies-byung-chul-han-review> The English translation of the title of this interview would be something like: “Dataism [i.e. Big Data, Analytics] is a pornographic form of knowledge that nullifies thought” - Google Translate has gotten really good! https://elpais.com/cultura/2020/05/15/babelia/1589532672_574169.html?rel=lom&fbclid=IwAR1-NwmdrEvC554BqottrizJWXrGVBR5EM0PGZojfrsc6c5u5EyLNIUj40A <https://elpais.com/cultura/2020/05/15/babelia/1589532672_574169.html?rel=lom&fbclid=IwAR1-NwmdrEvC554BqottrizJWXrGVBR5EM0PGZojfrsc6c5u5EyLNIUj40A> Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <[email protected]> +1 (347) 766-5008 > On Aug 27, 2020, at 1:27 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, TMI😈 > > Regards / Saludos / Grato > > Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > Pronouns: He/Him/They/Them (equal preference) > >> On Aug 27, 2020, at 12:43 PM, Richard Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I like the concept "data is the new oil," as in: >> -Exxon Valdez,and >> -Climate change >> >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial >> search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, change to digest >> mode, or change password by emailing [email protected].
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