#algorithmic capitalism

We need to fight against the capitalist-driven algorithmic governance, ecological destabilisation, information control, wealth accumulation, infrastructural dependency, and existential disorientation.

There exists within the trajectory of rigorous reading a threshold beyond which cognition no longer retains the capacity to revert to its prior state, a threshold that cannot be precisely localised in temporal terms yet manifests unmistakably in the structural reorganisation of the perceptual and inferential apparatus, such that what had previously appeared as neutral, self-evident, or naturally…

The transition from what is conventionally misdescribed as semantic intake to what must instead be recognised as ontological rewiring of perception entails a rupture in the very grammar through which cognition relates to the world, such that reading ceases to function as an additive process operating upon a stable perceptual substrate and reveals itself as a transformative intervention into the…

To speak of text as cognitive infrastructure is to displace, with deliberate violence, the naïve metaphor of reading as passive intake and to install in its place a far more exacting ontological claim, namely that textuality operates as an exogenous extension of neural architecture, a distributed scaffolding within which cognition itself is recursively reorganised, such that what is ordinarily…

As usual, I have chosen a sentence from today’s Book of the Day, to write a deeper analysis about it. If capital is the reified form of the proletariat’s activity which confronts it in the relation of exploitation — its own activity which is abstracted from it, appropriated as capital and subsumed under the form of self‑valorising value — then even the most concrete level of the class relation…

I have never believed that resistance has a single voice, a single volume, or a single tempo. The fantasy that opposition must always be loud, performative, immediately legible, and publicly consumable is itself a product of the very systems it pretends to contest. Capitalism, authoritarianism, and populism each in their own way demand constant visibility, constant signalling, constant…

It started with a bill. A $72 monthly fee for a storage unit in Brooklyn suddenly became $148—an increase of over 100% in less than a year. The concept of AI dynamic pricing was at play; the company, citing “dynamic pricing,” offered no explanation beyond referencing algorithmic demand shifts. The concept of charging different people different prices is not new. Airlines have done it for…

From today’s Book of the Day, I have chosen this quote for a deeper analysis: Time is not originally that of a consciousness, nor of a subject, nor of a life. Time is what constitutes these three, as the effect of a technical différance. Time is that which gives itself from a process of exteriorisation.Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, Vol. 1: The Fault of Epimetheus To take this sentence…