Digital Totalitarianism

ISBN-13: 9781032002439 / Miękka / 2023 / 90 str.

Opis

Digital Totalitarianism focuses on important challenges to democratic values posed by our computational regimes: policing the freedom of inquiry, risks to the personal autonomy of thought, NeoLiberal management of human creativity and the collapse of critical thinking with the social media fueled rise of conspiranoia.

Spis treści

1. Radical Resistance: Libraries, Defiance, and Data Surveillance

2. Urgent Ethical Issues in the Cognitive Enhancement Debate: Autonomy, Mental Privacy, and Freedom of Thought

3. Impersonal Computing: from Art School to Business Hub in Four Decades

4. The Plandemic and its Apostles: Conspiracy Theories in Pandemic Mode

O autorze

Michael Filimowicz is Senior Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University. He has a background in computer-mediated communications, audiovisual production, new media art, and creative writing. His research develops new multimodal display technologies and forms, exploring novel form factors across different application contexts, including gaming, immersive exhibitions, and simulations.