these coercive contractual relationships between individuals and predatory platforms, these individuals must counter-weaponize themselves and take back their individual private data. The problem, however, is this hyperindividuation of the use of computation itself as if the individual human were the proper unit of analysis for how it is that the computation would model the world. Unless this is in a sense, is sort of repurposed towards things that are more beneficial, I don't think any amount of kind of political solutionism that we might get from the surveillance capitalism critique is going to be very helpful. It also seems to speak to a larger sense of consciousness for a planet that can view itself and act upon itself in a way that is simply not possible at the individual level. I want to move the second part of our conversation into the overtime, Benjamin, and that's going to give us an opportunity to really talk about what a post-pandemic world would look like if we were to (40/42)
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