Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

This is such a mixed bag, frustrating to read. The first half develops the thought of psychopolitics, the new form of power under neoliberalism. This is an amazing part. It's deliberately named after Foucault's biopolitics, except that under neoliberalism, the threat of bodily harm is eliminated. We......more

"The Panopticon is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. The scheme of the design is to allow all (pan-) inmates of an institution to be observed (-opticon) by a single watchman withou......more

Well, Big Data comes across as waay too villainized here. I believe that instruments, such as Big Data, should not be villainized, their masters should be. After all, no instrument works on its own, always there are some operators behinds the scenes. Well, well, well... Data as the new sexy... I've a......more

The moral of the story is this: by weaponising our excessive intelligence, Neoliberalism with its Ken-Doll-Big-Data keratin treatment smoothens us out into horizontal planes of papers where incessant communication abounds. It straightens us out and transforms us into transparency fetishising losers:......more

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