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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • the politics of denying causal power to objects 

  • manufacturing certainties in response to systemic uncertainties 

  • fear of failure and the coding skills bubble

  • distinct digital-advertising landscapes are increasingly drawn on socioeconomic lines

  • the ‘religion’ of digital elites 

  • the irresistible temptation for algorithmic function creep 

  • big data and the politics of austerity 

  • the big data divide 

  • the micro-sociology of algorithmic authority 

  • Centre for Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Seminars

  • southpark on the self-appointed digital elite of yelp

  • transparency and opacity in digital capitalism

  • digital capitalism and the acceleration of bullshit

  • the turn away from contract labour in the sharing economy 

  • the eugenecist temptation for digital elites 

  • interview with the founder and ceo of palantir

  • the first gold rush of digital capitalism 

  • a foretaste of the coming uber wars

  • the rhetoric of the sharing economy and uber’s plans for world-domination

  • the coding skills bubble

  • innovation through appropriation

  • the fascinating crudeness of early digital rights management 

  • the sociology of the camp

  • the horatio alger myth

  • the origins of digital capitalism 

  • the disruption of finance 

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