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Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism

Earlier this year I read Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and was strongly affected by it. It’s always hard to judge how new works will age, but I found her narrative a poignant comment on the last few decades of the information society: a society that evolved quite differently from what many expected […]

Posted 20 June 2019 † Johan § Philosophy § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Enlightenment and the search for meaning

The premise of the enlightenment would be that we have finally discovered how to live rationally. Authority is located in natural science, free enterprise and free markets, and empirical knowledge. Thus we can cast aside all the superstitions of the past and finally become what we were meant to be. Can we? Not everyone agrees. Marx, Freud […]

Posted 26 December 2018 † Johan § Philosophy § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Worlds on display

In fashion shop interiors, I often see objects that suggest a certain environment, assemblages that seem to be taken from a different setting altogether. For example, very old sewing machines to suggest craftsmanship (even as the clothes are made in China with the latest equipment). Or piles of old books, sometimes surprisingly carefully selected (who picks […]

Posted 18 June 2015 † Johan § Life § Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,