What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
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What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
Accelerationism advocates a surrender to the forces of acceleration instead, jumping into the river even as we can hear the roar of the waterfall.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
At least when it comes to the ordering of our experience of capitalism, it would seem, stability and impermanence are equally valid: nothing lasts forever, but everything lives by pretending it will.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
The aestheticization of labor is perhaps the central distinguishing feature of the tech job, and it has turned tech into the leading indicator for what work is like today.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
Disruption is premised on creative amnesia, on a productive or at least profitable disregard for details.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
The genius aesthetic that rules the tech industry relies again and again on this purely gestural kind of courage, on hyping everyday things into grand acts of nonconformism and even resistance.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
While creative destruction is viable economically, the experience of it is too disorienting politically to allow capitalism to survive long-term.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
The ideas that tech calls thinking were developed and refined in the making of money.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
That’s not to discount their vision, but rather to say that their sense of the society that vision opposes isn’t that likely to be as developed.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
You’re encouraged to present as risk-taking what was really just adherence to rules, as eccentricity what was actually widely shared common wisdom, and as a late triumph after incredible adversity what was in fact basically inevitable.