The algorithms of the ruling class are in every epoch the algorithms of the ruling class
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:16:59 +0100 From: Florian Cramer <flrnc...@gmail.com<mailto:flrnc...@gmail.com>> Cc: Nettime <nettim...@kein.org<mailto:nettim...@kein.org>> Subject: Re: <nettime> social media critique: next steps? Message-ID: <CADCyihTuCJWc5ed0DcvFxZV5AmpQfFK5V03Tt1t=phj8vby...@mail.gmail.com<mailto:CADCyihTuCJWc5ed0DcvFxZV5AmpQfFK5V03Tt1t=phj8vby...@mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" <snip> It means that no Chinese "social credit" algorithm is necessary to discourage social engagement or political resistance. It is not even a question of "better" algorithms - whether "better" algorithmic governance within existing social networks or through the creation of "different"/alternative social networks -, since the issue will remain, being one of an 'apparatus' or an 'actor network' transcending binary distinctions of machinic and human agency. (The question whether a troll is a human or a bot, isn't very relevant.) Articulation of positions [including artist's positions outside self-chosen safe spaces] is rapidly becoming a privilege of those who can afford their defense. -F
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