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DESCRIPTION:w/ Eric-John Russell\nAStA Uni Hamburg\nVon-Melle-Park 5\nRoom 
 0029\n\nDigital platforms are not neutral tools but technological forms th
 at actively shape human perception\, sociality and sensibility. Drawing on
  the work of Günther Anders\, Theodor W. Adorno\, Bernard Stiegler and Jo
 nathan Crary\, Russell develops the concept of “platforms of proletarian
 ization” to describe how digital communication technologies regiment cog
 nitive\, perceptual and affective capacities. Russell will contend that pl
 atform communication operates according to an “agitational logic” driv
 en by visibility\, immediacy and quantitative engagement\, which erodes re
 flection\, sustained attention\, memory and contemplative experience throu
 gh what he calls a “violence of topicality.” Ultimately\, the presenta
 tion will argue that digital platforms intensify forms of human obsolescen
 ce not because machines become human-like\, but because human behavior inc
 reasingly adapts itself to machinic prediction\, optimization and regiment
 ation.\n\nEric-John Russell is a researcher specializing in the areas of G
 erman Idealism\, Hegelian Marxism and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. He
  is Editor in Chief of the Marx & Philosophy Review of Books and a foundin
 g editor of Cured Quail.
LOCATION:AStA Uni Hamburg
SUMMARY:Platforms of Proletarianization
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 arianization
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