Prof Sam Vaknin
@samvaknin·443K subscribers·2.3K videos
Keys to Understanding Our Times: From Identity to Attention to Reality
Posted
April 27, 2023
Views
11,876
Likes
638
Comments
25
Engagement
5.58%
April 27, 2023
11,876
638
25
5.58%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
52:50Now PlayingUrbanization led to the rise of the author and the original (the need to be seen).
Intellectual property followed 300 years ago when reproduction blurred the line between original and copy and dramatically reduced the marginal cost of copies.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), by Walter Benjamin, is an essay of cultural criticism which proposes and explains that mechanical reproduction devalues the aura (uniqueness) of an objet d'art.
Identity became big business: patents, copyrights, brands, and blockchain NFTs. Distributed ledgers as well as centralised records vouch for Identity and guarantee it.
Nonrivalrous zero marginal cost private digital goods shifted focus from manufacturing to attention and discoverability: interpellation (targetted advertising) and monetizing via aggregation of big data attention (demographics of attention).
This engendered self-sufficient disintermediated atomization (attention diverted to asocial online pursuits) and consequently impaired reality testing.
The next frontiers are reality real estate and commodified but idiosyncratic menu reality (metaverse). Collaborative virtual realities will supplant physical ones and reality substitutes (sex dolls, intimacy apps) will proliferate.
IRL AI will displace people as friend, advisor, interlocutor, lover, and service provider. Free people up to construct online simulations and inhabit them. But also force the introduction of mandatory digital identities, hopefully based on blockchain rather than government regulation.
Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
