Spinoza calls ‘conatus’ the effort by which ‘each thing, as far as it can by its own power, strives to persevere in its being.’
in a dialectical reversal peculiar to major advances in social control, the idea that some are free to use others as means to an end, while others are free to allow themselves to be used in that manner, has been proclaimed the very essence of freedom
I’m not saying that there should be a Stasi-like operation soaking up everyone’s data.
But the case to be made here is not just against Facebook; it’s a case against neoliberalism.
on Facebook being the provider of infrastructure
our aim was to promote an independent culture of publishing and conversation—a kind of Habermasian public sphere
