Capitalism – Alt Tab

Published: I/O: Reinforcing Newsmaking Practices Through Algorithmic Media

Recent developments in communication and information technology have disrupted the long-established dominance of mass media over the production and distribution of news. As an effort to reclaim their role of society’s information gatekeeper, media companies absorb digital technology as instruments…

CCA Conference Paper: Uber’s Dysfunctional Discourse of Technological Disruption

During the Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Conference 2016 (Calgary, Canada), I presented the paper “Accelerating Sharing Economy: Uber’s Dysfunctional Discourse of Technological Disruption”. Below you will find the abstract, my slides, and the link the completed version of this paper.…

Too fast, too furious

Incomplete thoughts about accelerationism: A project to overcome capitalism or a bunch of white-male-rich boys seeking to get profit and control the world? (update: later expanded and refined to be used in a conference paper: http://luciano.fluxo.art.br/accelerating-sharing-economy-ubers-dysfunctional-discourse-of-technological-disruption/) The “#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for…

Locke on property lockdown

Locke discusses and defends the origins of the private property as a universal natural law. His corollary is that every man has a property in his own person: “this nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his…

Capital, land, expropriation

Marx relates the expropriation of the agricultural population from land to the beginning of the capitalist process. In this process free farmers were removed from their areas, where they helped each other and cultivated their own food, to become proletariat…

Tag: Capitalism