Tag Archives: Cory Doctorow
Injustice ex machina
There are some things I think about but struggle to articulate, especially in the heat of an argument with a friend. Cory Doctorow succinctly captures one such idea here: Empiricism-washing is the top ideological dirty trick of technocrats everywhere: they … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-intellectualism, artificial intelligence, capitalism, Cory Doctorow, Evgeny Morozov, globalisation, machine learning, middle-class aspirations, nationalism, populism, technological solutionism
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From Orwell to Kafka, Markov to Doctorow: Understanding Big Data through metaphors
On March 20, I attended a short talk by Malavika Jayaram, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, titled ‘What we talk about when we talk about Big Data’ at the T.A.J. Residency in Bengaluru. It was something of … Continue reading
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Tagged Berkman Center, Big Brother, Big Data, civil liberties, contextual integrity, Cory Doctorow, data protection, ethnography, Franz Kafka, John Whitehead, Kafkaesque, Little Brother, privacy, Reiner Stachh, Sara M Watson, surveillance state, The Trial
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