Tiago Bortoletto Vaz: A few excerpts from The Invisible Committe's latest article
Just sharing some points from "2. War against all things smart!" and "4.
Techniques against Technology" by The Invisible Committee's "Fuck off Google"
article. You may want to get the "Fuck off Google" pdf
and watch that recent talk
at 31C3.
"...predicts The New Digital Age, there will be people who resist
adopting and using technology, people who want nothing to do with virtual
profiles, online data systems or smart phones. Yet a government might suspect
that people who opt out completely have something to hide and thus are more
likely to break laws, and as a counterterrorism measure, that government will
build the kind of hidden people registry we described earlier. If you don t
have any registered social-networking profiles or mobile subscriptions, and
on-line references to you are unusually hard to find, you might be considered a
candidate for such a registry. You might also be subjected to a strict set of
new regulations that includes rigorous airport screening or even travel
restrictions. "
I've been introduced to following observations about 5 years ago when reading
"The Immaterial" by Andr Gorz. Now The Invisible Committee makes that even
clearer in a very few words:
"Technophilia and technophobia form a diabolical pair joined together by a
central untruth: that such a thing as the technical exists. [...] Techniques
can t be reduced to a collection of equivalent instruments any one of which
Man, that generic being, could take up and use without his essence being
affected."
"[...] In this sense capitalism is essentially technological; it is the
profitable organization of the most productive techniques into a system. Its
cardinal figure is not the economist but the engineer. The engineer is the
specialist in techniques and thus the chief expropriator of them, one who
doesn t let himself be affected by any of them, and spreads his own absence
from the world every where he can. He s a sad and servile figure. The
solidarity between capitalism and socialism is confirmed there: in the cult of
the engineer. It was engineers who drew up most of the models of the
neoclassical economy like pieces of contemporary trading software."
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