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The year and decade in review. 2020s: orderly peace?

2019 comes to a close, and with it the 2010s. Below are a few thoughts on these periods of time. The most significant book I’ve read in 2019 is probably Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. The German title, literally “Elements and Origins of Totalitarian Rule” more closely reflects the contents of this monograph. Arendt […]

Posted 30 December 2019 † Johan § Bioinformatics § Computer science § Life § Philosophy ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

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: , , , ,