[liberationtech] Today's NYT On Tech is a good one: "Big Oil faded. Will Big Tech?"

[Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes]

On “Big Data,” the best critique yet I have read - in a piecemeal fashion, I admit, through interviews and such, I guess too lazy to read a full book but will get there eventually!🤠 - comes from the most read German Philosopher of our time (oh wait, he’s Korean!): Byung-Chul Han.

Here are a couple of tidbits (you can leverage Google Translate to read the second, apparently he’s very popular in Spain!):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/30/psychopolitics-neolberalism-new-technologies-byung-chul-han-review <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/30/psychopolitics-neolberalism-new-technologies-byung-chul-han-review>

The English translation of the title of this interview would be something like: “Dataism [i.e. Big Data, Analytics] is a pornographic form of knowledge that nullifies thought” - Google Translate has gotten really good!
https://elpais.com/cultura/2020/05/15/babelia/1589532672_574169.html?rel=lom&fbclid=IwAR1-NwmdrEvC554BqottrizJWXrGVBR5EM0PGZojfrsc6c5u5EyLNIUj40A <https://elpais.com/cultura/2020/05/15/babelia/1589532672_574169.html?rel=lom&fbclid=IwAR1-NwmdrEvC554BqottrizJWXrGVBR5EM0PGZojfrsc6c5u5EyLNIUj40A>

Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato,

Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes
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> On Aug 27, 2020, at 1:27 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes <alps6085 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, TMI😈
> 
> Regards / Saludos / Grato
> 
> Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
> Pronouns: He/Him/They/Them (equal preference)
> 
>> On Aug 27, 2020, at 12:43 PM, Richard Brooks <rrb at g.clemson.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> I like the concept "data is the new oil," as in:
>> -Exxon Valdez,and
>> -Climate change
>> 
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