Un’Ambigua Utopia – Rivista di Critica Marx/z/iana

https://codice-rosso.net/unambigua-utopia-rivista-di-critica-marx-z-iana/

@decryption “Why would you outsource the most critical part of writing, your intent and your meaning, to a machine, because you think it understands you? The machine will never understand you. It's a goddamn machine, made by humans that hate what you do for a living and wish to commoditise your craft.”

Cost.

For JB, faster time for *product* to market, time is money, more profit. For the type & style of writing this works. Much like commercial art is cost sensitive, JBs commercial writing is not going to be the next PKD novel. Something to read, generate a topical idea or two, old articles becoming #kipple.

This narrative is being played out in all manners of ‘human related work’; Writing, illustration, scripting, translation, software development, administration, etc.. Why? My thesis, the ‘powers that be’¥ are finding ways to reduce the human touch to reduce cost. At the same time reducing head counts. Zero hour workers.

Read through the #Whitecollar tag to get idea of how this reduction of workers is being reported in the press.

¥ November 2022, “Major investor calls on Google owner to ‘aggressively’ cut staff and pay” #ChristopherHohn / #TCI / #Alphabet <https://ioc.exchange/@peterrenshaw/109725442924625839>.

Maximalism has its place, and that's as far away from me as possible, or occasionally in homes I like to visit, but could never inhabit without losing my mind.

If a decorating aesthetic is straight from the playbook of a chain family restaurant, I will gleefully shun it.

#maximalism #overkill #clutterlife #kipple

I re-read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep a while back for the first time in about 30 years.

What struck me this time round wasn't all the stuff about the replicants or the weird religion. It was that what was left of humanity was being buried under tons of #kipple Just stuff that had been made and no one had any use for anymore.

Look around your house. How much kipple is there.

"No one can win against kipple," he said, "except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I've sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time being. But eventually I'll die or go away, and then the kipple will again take over. It's a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/570515-kipple-is-useless-objects-like-junk-mail-or-match-folders

#kipple #PhilipKDick #SciFi #DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep