Of algorithms and Mimesis—GAFA, digital personalization, and freedom as nondomination.
In: Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory, Jg. 28 (2021-06-01), Heft 2, S. 159-175
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In line with Sunstein's opening views on republican freedom, Horkheimer and Adorno forewarned against the sirens' call to endorse the culture industry's false projection of freedom as consumer sovereignty and/or liberty as noninterference. Moreover, they do not even deliver on the consumptive individualism initially promised because industries steer choices toward a systemic mass culture of homogeneity anyway (Horkheimer & Adorno, 1947; Sunstein, 2017, p. 175). Because the wider problem is with the American culture industry rendered global, I opt to focus primarily on American policy critiques that expand Horkheimer and Adorno's original critiques of radio, telegraph, television, and telephone to extend to the mass culture industry currently produced by social media. As a democratic theorist that can identify with Sunstein through our shared affinities for both deliberative democracy and a strong heritage of democratic republicanism read back into the founding of our nation (Sunstein, 2017, pp. 44-48), I would nonetheless decidedly take a more critical position of these monoliths than Sunstein's confidence in the market equilibrium to come. [Extracted from the article]
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Of algorithms and Mimesis—GAFA, digital personalization, and freedom as nondomination.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Bowman, Jonathan |
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Zeitschrift: | Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory, Jg. 28 (2021-06-01), Heft 2, S. 159-175 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2021 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1351-0487 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-8675.12483 |
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