tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.comments2023-09-29T04:04:27.405-04:00marginal utility annexRob Horninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11159343725040502005noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-44532985825306277862012-09-23T15:49:46.533-04:002012-09-23T15:49:46.533-04:00geniouss
geniouss<br />Druida del Surhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07455229154245567019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-58350092708838346272012-08-10T23:14:16.848-04:002012-08-10T23:14:16.848-04:00I haven't read it either. The standing-reserve...I haven't read it either. The standing-reserve (or 'bestand' resource) nicely describes the situation of a quantified lowly freelancer, eg. But couldn't a "fit" exec also be on-reserve? Like, say, a private equity man, or an efficiency 'consultant' of 30 yrs ago – those external bosses who proudly self-quant in a market setting? - Romney as the quantified standing-reserve-exec de rigueur. When you say "fitness," ...to what? <br /><br />looks like Zuboff's interest is in workplace politics?Carson Salterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05277683019962818487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-45083826721984777482012-06-25T21:31:20.965-04:002012-06-25T21:31:20.965-04:00Los DelfosLos DelfosWilliamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17030379799039937467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-54463714276318141052012-06-02T18:36:12.057-04:002012-06-02T18:36:12.057-04:00Thanks. This is mostly my extrapolation from Zubof...Thanks. This is mostly my extrapolation from Zuboff's observations. <br /><br />I'm still reading the book; I think it is going to end up arguing that "informating" the workplace need not deskill workers but may allow workers to develop analytic skills and undermine hierarchies, etc.Rob Horninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11159343725040502005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-91587674075335120532012-06-01T02:22:13.784-04:002012-06-01T02:22:13.784-04:00This is interesting. How much is Zuboff and how mu...This is interesting. How much is Zuboff and how much is you (I haven't read the book)?<br /><br />In Heidegger's terms, the more you quantify the self, the more you transform the self into standing reserve.Nick Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03367333162974365515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-43296674800478411562012-04-15T13:34:01.656-04:002012-04-15T13:34:01.656-04:00Excellent comments on Dryden's "Prologue....Excellent comments on Dryden's "Prologue." Thank you for posting this.Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01741082655203862261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-68606916684659245282012-02-06T19:34:20.691-05:002012-02-06T19:34:20.691-05:00Yes, I understand that to be your general point ab...Yes, I understand that to be your general point about the data self and I wholeheartedly agree with it. I quite literally wrote a PhD on that idea.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-55337839669314900032012-02-06T19:30:25.331-05:002012-02-06T19:30:25.331-05:00That's a good point about the platforms callin...That's a good point about the platforms calling forth different sorts of identity by allowing for different networks to be built. And yes, the internet's chief ideologists want to see these various networks merged together. <br /><br />But I guess the thing that I'm trying to get it is that we used to turn inward, to our dreams and memories, to get to the bottom of ourselves; now it seems more appropriate to turn outward and disgorge as much information as possible to online algorithms and networks to see what self is returned to us, properly processed.Rob Horninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11159343725040502005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-20204316029583065882012-02-04T17:03:29.224-05:002012-02-04T17:03:29.224-05:00The capability of social media to document more an...<i>The capability of social media to document more and more of what a given person does and store that data, make it available for processing and redistribution, makes it harder to sustain the illusion of a unified self. That may seem paradoxical, as all the data gets assigned to the same Profile, unifying it in a sense by default. But what happens is that the activities of different "selves" are forced to cohere, making the body of data incoherent and "inauthentic".</i> <br /><br />I think this is true, yet at the same time so is its opposite, in that social media allow to split the data self in conscious and calculated, rational ways. And not just because, say, LinkedIn and Facebook are designed to articulate different identities for different audiences and to different ends, but also in very pragmatic fashion via the multiplication of functionally identical platforms. I see people using Google+ and Facebook to construct quite different selves. Or they might be chatty on Facebook, and be political on Twitter. However I think this doesn't invalidate your point - it's also true that the major platforms (chiefly Facebook and Google, where Google includes the full suit of services, not just Plus) and more generally digital ideology try to force that data to cohere.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-67824427080937118102011-11-14T22:27:09.152-05:002011-11-14T22:27:09.152-05:00"We are commanded to be productive, just like..."We are commanded to be productive, just like in old-time factory discipline, only the discipline often takes the form of self-chosen entertainment consumption. User interfaces become covert shop-floor foremen." <br /><br />Because work is play and play is work, nowhere more so than in digitally mediated entertainment. (And indeed one could read "plug and play" as an injunction.)Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-26857777253214505922011-09-25T09:27:38.805-04:002011-09-25T09:27:38.805-04:00Ecological considerations could bring another elem...Ecological considerations could bring another element in consumer subjectivity and the question is also how they could rearrange the consumerist model. See also Y. Rumpala, “Sustainable consumption” as a new phase in a governmentalization of consumption », Theory and Society, 2011.Bernardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06195310922511141482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-40190379627283126882011-09-07T22:02:45.223-04:002011-09-07T22:02:45.223-04:00At the cost of making one of those pointless appro...At the cost of making one of those pointless approving comments... thanks for this. I find Lanier's arguments in equal parts compelling and maddening, and you've gone some way towards helping me clarify why.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-32781921091731742452011-09-01T18:56:15.143-04:002011-09-01T18:56:15.143-04:00this is @nefitty
I think it's interesting that...this is @nefitty<br />I think it's interesting that you pointed out the role of the internet in reducing the scarcity of cultural capital. Those developments are being pushed ahead all the time by new start-ups as well (netflix, spotify, youtube all changed or are changing the exclusivity and ease with which certain ideas can be reached.) It seems that as the availability of ideas increases, the obsession with authenticity becomes less prominent, except of course in certain tiny subcultures like crust-punk, as you pointed out once on HRO Exegesis.<br /><br />I think that the idea of "relevance" is the main obsession with people my age now. We definitely can't depend on social status through material possesions. I know because I myself feel that motivation to be seen as an early-adopter. I'm sure relevance will also go the way of authenticity and who knows what will come after that? Once we have instant access to every cultural creation ever made concepts of identity might just dissipate completely. Hipsterdom's pastiche of identitites was probably the step before that occurs. Maybe obsession with sincerity will gain momentum and we'll be stuck with another idealist-dualist concept like authenticity.Izzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03023718872709130255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-61311558290491978152011-07-31T07:07:47.904-04:002011-07-31T07:07:47.904-04:00I have not seen one article on the mathematical tr...I have not seen one article on the mathematical treatment of the demonstration effect...is there any that you are perhaps aware of?Ayushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18011458375506087036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-54579654996149657642011-05-30T14:42:15.061-04:002011-05-30T14:42:15.061-04:00Great post! I've got ten minutes before a clas...Great post! I've got ten minutes before a class I'm leading, so I'll have to leave this response as simply of the "naked approval" ilk...Trevor Cunningtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00152053183619447287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-1635093467491852912011-03-21T16:25:44.704-04:002011-03-21T16:25:44.704-04:00I also think this is very perceptive. I personall...I also think this is very perceptive. I personally tend only to post political/cultural material, and to hide people who fail to do so. I want to be in touch with people who are thinking and want to share what they're thinking about. <br /><br />But I also realize that I'm watching dozens of microperformances each day, some perfectly spontaneous, others skillfully or crudely calculated as "networking," ingratiation, or #humblebrags.Frank Pasqualehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06781189394947342774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-92023723168727642532011-03-16T01:08:28.926-04:002011-03-16T01:08:28.926-04:00I think this is part of what appeals to me about t...I think this is part of what appeals to me about the idea of playing around with makeup--if Zara and the like are able to turn around "fast fashion" within two weeks of the runways, then all the individual needs is a good makeup palette to create whatever look she (or he, for that matter) wishes. In that sense you don't need to make any purchase beyond the initial event to "keep up" (and yes, there are makeup trends, which I still don't understand, but they exist).<br /><br />Of course, that's me being idealistic--certainly I don't think that the majority of beauty dollars being spent are being spent out of a sense of play and subversion of fashion economics...Autumn Whitefield-Madranohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03379314479257695986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-73353242177154935782011-03-11T22:03:46.208-05:002011-03-11T22:03:46.208-05:00Thanks!Thanks!Rob Horninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11159343725040502005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-783677333554624892011-03-04T23:40:16.256-05:002011-03-04T23:40:16.256-05:00Fascinating. I agree with Freddie deBoer. You'...Fascinating. I agree with Freddie deBoer. You're on to something.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12558170962643152538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-59481095086870007592010-06-26T01:06:44.816-04:002010-06-26T01:06:44.816-04:00Hi Rob,
I came across this blog post for a class ...Hi Rob,<br /><br />I came across this blog post for a class I'm teaching on the "History of New Media." Two comments: 1) Have you read the short essay on the piece written by (I think) Noah Waldrip-Fruin in the <i>New Media Reader?</i> 2) Have you looked into any of the history surrounding the events Baudrilliard is discussing, specifically the events in France on May 1968? Might give you some more clues, might not. Thanks for taking the time to comment, it's an interesting (and under-considered) piece!Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07145123932182789463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-38333510138754612812009-03-07T04:33:00.000-05:002009-03-07T04:33:00.000-05:00I like your marginal utilities at pop im from arge...I like your marginal utilities at pop <BR/><BR/>im from argentina<BR/><BR/>07.32 am.......<BR/><BR/>massificating my fuckin over collapsed brain with information<BR/><BR/>i want to tell me , i already now<BR/>but density<BR/><BR/>you know<BR/><BR/>then you are useless..... exploit in neurosis......Druida del Surhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07455229154245567019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-23697598183681963412008-05-07T01:41:00.000-04:002008-05-07T01:41:00.000-04:00It is a very good article and you give very good i...It is a very good article and you give very good information this will help for every one.<BR/>Here is some more information about shopping mals: <BR/><A HREF="http://venugopaly.blogspot.com/2008/03/d.html" REL="nofollow"> dead mall </A><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://venugopaly.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow"> click once</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-1302066666450160362008-01-26T05:39:00.000-05:002008-01-26T05:39:00.000-05:00Despite the fact that it can be more exensive to p...Despite the fact that it can be more exensive to produce home made olive oil soap, i'd still like to k now how - can you give us your recipe? Friends and i hope to lessen the expense by sharing the provision of ingredients between ourselves. This is in line with our pact to only give made gifts this year -and made form natural products whjereever possible to - we are trying to rediscover the old and experience and practice as many new ccrafts and wyas of making things as we can. Would appreciate hearing from you. Regards ToryToryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05607531501736406752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-29453218251289565872008-01-26T05:35:00.000-05:002008-01-26T05:35:00.000-05:00Despite the higher costs of producing our own soap...Despite the higher costs of producing our own soap - i'd still like to know how to do it, and see if i can borrow some amd share other ingredients with friends, which might make it more economically viable. It would suit well our pact only to give made gifts for birthdays and christmas this year, all from natural products. Could you tell us how you made the soap?Toryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05607531501736406752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429207.post-72878897370720600782007-02-02T17:23:00.000-05:002007-02-02T17:23:00.000-05:00Reaction: tenderness throughout, followed by a bel...Reaction: tenderness throughout, followed by a belly laugh at the last line. We are who we are.Autumn Whitefield-Madranohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03379314479257695986noreply@blogger.com