What does my new website, the TikTok "ban," and the ongoing purge of "woke" from government websites have in common?
The power to decide what content counts and what doesn't—and use that power to shape the knowledge and experiences of others.
In this episode, I continue to examine the state of The Website today. Amidst a backdrop of diffuse epistemic violence, the website is both an archive and a communication tool we can use to preserve the knowledge and ways of knowing we care about. In the second half of the episode, I share a piece I wrote last year on how artificial intelligence disrupts and deskills our critical thinking.
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- (00:00) - EP 486: How Knowledge Really Does Become Power
- (03:21) - 1. Knowledge is Power
- (06:41) - The Purge
- (14:05) - 2. Black Box Thinking
- (18:07) - Technological Conditioning
- (26:12) - Credits
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