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Philosophy

When Everything Becomes Visible: Privacy, Power and Digital Identity

We are building a world that needs to know more and more about us, just as being unknown becomes increasingly valuable.

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technology

Seeking Work in an Algorithmic Era

Employment in an algorithmic era is no longer organised primarily around the value of work, nor even around the value of a worker, but around the value of a legible, searchable, and continuously reprocessable jobseeker. The centre of gravity has shifted. What matters most is not stable placement but sustained circulation through platforms, filters, rankings, […]

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culture

Data Exploitation: Technologies of the Self

The bundled aggregation and recorded sedimentation of information within, between and around individuals is not simply a symptom of an accelerating information and technological communications culture – it precisely and constitutively is that culture…