"Taking MDMA is like improving Microsoft Windows. No matter how much tinkering Dollar Bill Gates does, it will always be shit....Using ecstasy will always fuck up in the end because the human OS has not been taken out and dismantled." - #markfisher

Post Capitalist Desire: Mark Fisher The Final Lectures

The original post posits that choosing prisons over public goods reveals a lack of political will. However, engaging with critical theory suggests a much more deliberate reality.

​Firstly, the school to prison pipeline will neither fill nor fund itself. As Angela Davis observes regarding the prison industrial complex, incarceration operates as a self sustaining economic engine requiring constant human input.

​Secondly, the systemic failure in education and the denial of life opportunities actively provide profit for incarceration, policing, and militarisation. Antonio Gramsci and his concept of cultural hegemony help explain how elite interests maintain control through such structural deficits. Furthermore, Ruth Wilson Gilmore demonstrates how surplus capital and land are purposefully absorbed by prison expansion rather than social care.

​Thirdly, in this view, the state is not failing. The political will is directed exactly where it is intended, towards Michel Foucault and his concept of the panopticon. Foucault outlines how modern disciplinary power relies entirely upon panoptic systems of physical population control and criminalisation.
​This physical containment extends seamlessly into the digital realm. The restrictions on virtual private networks, the push for mandatory digital identification, and the ubiquitous capture of data are routinely justified through moral panics regarding child welfare and a process of generalised infantilisation.

Extending Foucault, Gilles Deleuze categorises this as the society of control, where physical enclosures are augmented by continuous digital modulation. The stark reality that political and technological elites mandate these mechanisms of surveillance, whilst remaining intimately proximate to systemic paedophile rings themselves, illustrates a structure operating exactly within its designated parameters.

​Finally, the reality that systemic conditions remain largely static regardless of which political faction holds power fully illustrates this dynamic. When the political right launched sustained attacks on Critical Race Theory, the supposedly progressive opposition offered only performative, ephemeral complaints. Once the immediate news cycle concluded, the defence evaporated. Consequently, both ethnically bound CRT and broader, pre extant criticalities were summarily thrown under the bus to mitigate political risk.

​As Mark Fisher articulates through his concept of capitalist realism, this proves that electoral politics offers a mere illusion of choice firmly constrained within a singular neoliberal consensus. The objective of alternating governments is never structural transformation. Rather, it operates as Guy Debord describes in the society of the spectacle. It is minimal tinkering designed solely to provide the appearance of change, neutralising genuine dissent while the underlying apparatus of control remains undisturbed.
​Ergo, it is not a lack of will that prevents the creation of housing or schools, nor is it benevolence that drives mass surveillance. It is a fundamental lack of want. The system functions flawlessly.

Coca-Cola or Pepsi?

It's still just fucking carbonated sugar water.

Hell, it could be argued that my point is just Dr. Pepper.

​#Sociology #CriticalTheory #Foucault #AngelaDavis #GillesDeleuze #MarkFisher #Abolition #Criminology #PoliticalScience

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm introducing myself here as well. I’ve left mainstream social media recently, realizing that the problem isn't social networking itself, but the current corporate structures. I’m from the ICQ, Orkut, and chat-room era; when we dreamed of an internet for open knowledge and global connection. Big Tech stole that. Joining the Fediverse is my attempt to reclaim some of that spirit. I know the world has changed, but I’d rather be here than scrolling mindlessly on Instagram.

Originally from upstate São Paulo, I moved to Porto Alegre in 2013 to study Social Sciences. I quit IT because I wanted to "learn about people, not machines" (the irony... lol). In college, I fell in love with quantitative research, which led me to Statistics. I finished my Master’s in Sociology researching risk assessment models in the US criminal justice system, blending statistics and critical theory, and naturally became a data scientist. I’ve worked as a scientist, analyst, and data engineer — sometimes all three at once. My practical path reflects this hybridism: I've worked on everything from PySpark data pipelines to geospatial and sentiment analysis.

Besides engineering, I’m dedicated to data literacy, creating R courses for people in the humanities. I also get my hands dirty with Docker in collective and open-source projects, as I believe digital sovereignty starts with mastering our own infrastructure.

I was recently diagnosed as AuDHD/2e (ADHD + Autism + Giftedness). It explains why I’ve never been strictly "humanities" or "STEM." I’m an analyst who wants to optimize data pipelines and an engineer who understands the social context and applicability of data. I'm a sociologist who loves data and stats, and a statistician who wants to do social research.

What I enjoy:

- Cycling 🚲
- Cinema, theater, museums, and series (I love Nordic Noir)
- Hanging out with my 3 pets 🐱 🐱 🐶
- Starting 50 books and only finishing 5
- Camping and discovering music from all over the world

I want to write again to organize my thoughts and share a little bit of the little I know. It’s also a way for me to study and learn more. Currently, I’m deep-diving into Mark Fisher’s work.

I identify as an anarcho-communist, I’m pansexual, and non-monogamous (currently in only one relationship, but for me, non-monogamy is, above all, a political stance).

I’m looking to connect with people thinking about the social impacts of tech, digital sovereignty, and social data research. I’m open to collaborations (both paid and volunteer), in Brazil or elsewhere. I can communicate in English and Spanish. 🇧🇷 🇺🇸 🇪🇸

🛠️ Stacks: PySpark, Shiny, Docker, R, Python. Experience in Geospatial, Multivariate, and Sentiment Analysis.

Personal account: @ipassos

#Introduction #Sociology #Statistics #DataScience #DataEngineering #Anarchism #DigitalSovereignty #AuDHD #MarkFisher #Brazil #FediHire

Olá, pessoal! 👋

Vou fazer uma apresentação por aqui também. Saí das redes sociais mainstream nos últimos meses por diversos motivos, mas percebi que o problema não eram as redes em si, mas as estruturas que temos hoje. Sou da época do ICQ, Orkut e bate-papo UOL; do sonho de uma internet para conectar culturas e conhecimento livre. As Big Techs roubaram isso. Vir para o Fediverso é uma tentativa de recuperar um pouco desse fôlego. Sei que o mundo mudou e não tenho mais 12 anos, mas prefiro estar aqui do que no scroll infinito do Instagram.

Sou do interior de SP e vim para Porto Alegre em 2013 estudar Ciências Sociais na UFRGS. Larguei a TI porque queria "aprender sobre gente e não máquinas" (mal sabia eu... rs). Na faculdade, me apaixonei por metodologia e pesquisa quantitativa, o que me empurrou para a Estatística. Fiz mestrado em Sociologia pesquisando modelos de avaliação de risco no sistema de justiça criminal dos EUA, unindo estatística e teoria crítica e, naturalmente, acabei virando cientista de dados. Já atuei como cientista, analista e engenheira de dados — às vezes os três ao mesmo tempo. Minha trajetória prática é um reflexo desse hibridismo: já atuei desde a construção de pipelines de dados em PySpark até a análise de dados geoespaciais e de sentimento.

Além da engenharia, me dedico à alfabetização de dados, criando cursos de R para quem vem das humanas. Também meto a mão na massa com Docker em projetos coletivos e open source, porque acredito que a soberania digital passa por dominar a nossa própria infraestrutura.

Recentemente recebi o diagnóstico de AuDHD/2e (TDAH + TEA + Superdotação). Isso explicou muito sobre o meu "problema" de não ser exatamente de humanas nem de exatas. Sou uma analista que quer otimizar dados e criar pipelines e uma engenheira que entende o contexto e aplicabilidade dos dados. Sou uma socióloga que gosta de dados e estatística e uma estatística que quer fazer pesquisa social.

O que eu curto fazer:

* Pedalar 🚲
* Cinema, teatro, museus e muitas séries (amo Nordic Noir)
* Ficar com meus 3 pets
* Começar 50 livros e terminar 5 (quem nunca?)
* Acampar e conhecer música do mundo todo

Quero voltar a escrever para organizar meus pensamentos e passar um pouco do pouco que sei adiante. Fazer isso também é uma forma de estudar e aprender mais. No momento, estou imersa na obra do Mark Fisher.

Me considero anarco-comunista, sou pansexual e não-monogâmica (atualmente em apenas um relacionamento, mas a não-monogamia pra mim é, antes de tudo, política).

Por fim, quero me conectar com quem pensa impactos sociais da tecnologia, soberania digital e pesquisa com dados sociais. Estou super aberta para parcerias (pagas ou voluntárias), no Brasil ou em outros lugares. Consigo me comunicar em inglês e em espanhol. 🇧🇷 🇺🇸 🇪🇸

🛠️ Stacks: PySpark, Shiny, Docker, R, Python. Experiência em análise geoespacial, multivariada e de sentimento.

Também criei um perfil pessoal aqui: @ipassos

#Introdução #Sociologia #Estatística #DataScience #EngenhariaDeDados #Anarquismo #SoberaniaDigital #AuDHD #MarkFisher #Brasil #FediHire

They're aware that, what is out there, has got away with something. What is out there is capitalism, the latest form of capitulation, whatever you call it. The whole thing feels ordinary and grossly engorged in some kind of obscure libido. Feeling of it being ordinary peels away in glimpsing even a tiny part of a gigantic behind the scenes infrastructure. Peels away even more when the everyday glam, the world of tower blocks, department stores, software devices is destroyed by an awareness of its sweatshops and reality blocking addictions. They've been watching the BBC adaptations of MR James' ghost stories with the soundtrack off, and with Brian Eno's album On Land playing instead. The abstract spaces of sky and land with a single figure in the middle distance, an incursion from the unknown, the music evoking Suffolk spaces of calm serving attachment, an attachment of delirium.

Mark Fisher & Justin Barton -- On Vanishing Land. Flatlines (2019)

#MarkFisher #JustinBArton #SoundEssay #Flatlines #Hyperdub