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from hacking
  • Morozov is anti-hacker, at least, anti the way it melds countercultural rebellion and tech. Like, he really hates Stewart Brand. This is so weird to me. I mean, he has some valid critiques, and hacking has come to be a bit too self-congratulatory a cultural marker. But still, these are the people who Manipulate Technology to Make Lives Better. If they do it within a context of capitalism, its because that is the world we live in.
from A Sense of Rebellion
  • He build on this dichotomy in the final episode, contrasting Brodey's vision with that of Buckminster Fuller as more alive, less involved with the evils of the corporate world. Fuller, Brand, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, all on the bad side of some divide, as is "solutionism". Brodey was more radical in this view, he envisioned using technology for a genuine positive transformation of the human, not mere products or corporate tools. But he was also a complete failure and narcissist, which at least lets him retain the purity of his vision.
from Stewart Brand
  • Why am I quoting this article at length? It's just really bad, juvenile name-calling. I'm embarassed for The Nation (used to be a subscriber) and Harris is on my do-not-read list. Note Morozov also seems to delight in Brand-bashing but at least he usually has something interesting to say, unlike this.
from Stewart Brand
  • As usual, deftly places him in countercultural context. Mentions Morozov, negatively.
from A Sense of Rebellion
  • podcast by Morozov A Sense of Rebellion. It tells the story of an extremely obscure private research lab in Boston in the 1970s, led by Warren Brodey and his associates. I was very surprised to have never heard of this lab or people before; given how close it was to my own world (in fact some of Brodey's ideas made it into Negroponte's Architecture Machine and from there to the later Media Lab ).

Morozov

14 Dec 2024 - 09 Feb 2025
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    • Tech critic with interesting (if occasionally overly reductionist) views.
    • A critic of what he calls solutionism, a term which really enrages me for some reason. As if finding solutions is a bad thing? I guess what he means is the idea that stupid SV products are solutions to genuine problems, but the name doesn't capture that.

    • From a BAR post, 2014?

      • Morozov has a piece in the current New Yorker which is a critical look at the Maker movement. As you might expect, it’s pretty crappy, a collection of stupid quibbles (Oh noes, some makers are actually trying to make money! Makers like everyone else have to compete for attention and Google rankings!). There is an interesting question raised about the politics of this movement, if any, but M. sheds no light on it whatsoever. Not worth reading, but the prominence of the forum makes it important I guess.
      • When, in November, the publisher Stewart Brand was asked about who carries the flag of counterculture today, he pointed to the maker movement. The maker era might not be upon us yet, but the maker movement has arrived. Many promoters of the maker movement believe that personal manufacturing will und...
      • Is Brand’s hacking revolutionary, or counter-revolutionary? The plentiful recent books that preach hacking as a way of life—“Reality Hacking,” “Hacking Your Education,” “Hacking Happiness”— express devotion at least to the rhetoric of revolt. “Hacking Work,” a business book published in 2010, announces that “you were born to hack” and suggests ways in which one could “hack” work to achieve “morebetterfaster results.” As in most of these books, our hackers aren’t smashing the system; they’re fiddling with it so that they can get more work done.