Thursday, April 16, 2020

"Deploy Technology to Avoid Politics"

"This is precisely where solutionism steps in. If neoliberalism is a proactive ideology, solutionism is a reactive one: it disarms, disables and discards any political alternatives. Neoliberalism shrinks public budgets; solutionism shrinks public imagination. The solutionist mandate is to convince the public that the only legitimate use of digital technologies is to disrupt and revolutionise everything but the central institution of modern life–the market."

Evgeny Morozov at The Guardian criticizes "solutionism."

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