Why We Should Fear Zuck's Metaverse
December 14, 2021
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What does 'meta' really mean? What can we make of Facebook's change to 'Meta'? Jean-Francois Lyotard wrote about the decline of metanarratives in 1979's 'The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge'. Can we learn anything about Zuckerberg's aspirations from this classic postmodern text?
Lyotard was prescient. He noticed in the 70s that quote ‘the miniaturization and commercialization of machines is already changing the way in which learning is acquired, classified, made available, and exploited.’ He also that ‘Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.’
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Hans Bertens, The Idea of the Postmodern
Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition
Ethan Zuckerman, The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure,
#metaverse #zuckerberg #facebook
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