dan mcateer

still finishing a doctorate on the Silicon Valley ideology @oxfordhistory

[David Edgerton @DEHEdgerton]

Had a very interesting conversation with @PhilipfvBell on how to think historically about AI and 'technology' more generally. @KingsCHoSTM @kingshistory https://t.co/77CvpqppT9

[The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social @mitpress]

“Big Tech is essentially its own religion with its own theology and rites, not to mention its own power and influence. Pope Leo’s encyclical will be automatically viewed as false doctrine.” https://t.co/9NTZAqVR3X

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

@erikmbaker He strikes again

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

@tatamitimon @iycrtylph And as a crypto-confessional exercise which ironically displaces catholic modalities into performative narcissism

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

@Myrcie_VT @hlovo_ Welcome to shit britain

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

@TheCinesthetic “River dance” 🤦

[Maia @maiamindel]

Nick Land is basically this

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

@JohannesAchill Gnostic technocracy

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

Technocracy Inc.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Poverty is an engineering problem

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Source: https://t.co/4PTgZFdtSK

[Wirelyss 👁️‍🗨️💫 @wirelyss]

Luckily since the Louvre made NFTs of their jewelry, even though the crowns physically were stolen, they still own the same assets. Because the tokens still exist and are in limited supply just as before. Nothing has changed. few understand blockchain technology.

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Peter Gordon reviews Kwame Anthony Appiah lucid new book: “Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science”: https://t.co/1V9ySTiHqT

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

@Lily_Eunseo I think it’s made it less linear and less cohesive - sometimes feels faster, sometimes slower and like very little has changed since the 90s. It’s janky and glitchy

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

@erikmbaker I think the way digital tech changed the historical time of art is underappreciated tho also. E.g. most electronic music genres have always been defined by ploughing up samples and styles from the past and recombining. Has deffo made pace of cultural change less linear but 🤷

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

@erikmbaker Don’t worry, they read Sapiens ..

[Dialectical Zach-Zack Loeffler @thezachloeffler]

12 July 1957 lecture by Adorno to UChicago students on “the purpose of education” defending disciplinary specialization. “the shortest path to genuine universality is to be found precisely when we abandon the quest for the merely general.”

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

@daniel_dsj2110 Right, Silicon Valley is obsessed !

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

@erikmbaker Do you know Thomas park Hughes’s Rescuing Prometheus? If u wanna nerd out on how large technological/infrastructure projects became hellishly complex and expensive in the digital era

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

@HarrisDebra21 The history is psychiatry is messy and complicated. In the nineteenth century, by far the most popular diagnosis was “neurasthenia,” an idea that the disorientating experience of modernity had basically short-circuited people’s brains. Not so different to modern ideas of ADHD etc

[dan mcateer @daniel_mcateer]

@jemgilbert @RVanderblight With some moments of cultural historical brilliance