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Frieda Vizel
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IT WAS THE CENTURY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT and of the American and French Revolutions: the dawn of the modern world. But it was also the century of the Great Religious Awakening in North America, of Pietism in Germany, and of the split in the
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“We typically don’t know enough individually to form knowledgeable, nuanced views about new technologies and scientific developments. We simply have no choice but to adopt the positions of those we trust. Our attitudes and those of the people around us thus become mutually reinforcing. And the fact that we have a strong opinion makes us think that there must be a firm basis for our opinion, so we think we know a lot, more than in fact we do.”
― The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
― The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
“It's just, people throwing around fashionable lingo think they're so hip and imaginative. But you can't be hip and imaginative. You can be unhip and imaginative, or hip and conformist.”
― The Motion of the Body Through Space
― The Motion of the Body Through Space
“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps because they suspected that it could not withstand exposure to more vigorous ideas.”
― The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
― The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
“Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language”
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“Right now, however, the extreme asymmetries of knowledge and power that have accrued to surveillance capitalism abrogate these elemental rights as our lives are unilaterally rendered as data, expropriated, and repurposed in new forms of social control, all of it in the service of others’ interests and in the absence of our awareness or means of combat. We have yet to invent the politics and new forms of collaborative action—this century’s equivalent of the social movements of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries that aimed to tether raw capitalism to society—that effectively assert the people’s right to a human future. And while the work of these inventions awaits us, this mobilization and the resistance it engenders will define a key battleground upon which the fight for a human future unfolds.”
― The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
― The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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