Mary+Harrington+Soul+Trader+Identity+in+a+Digital+Age

Mary+Harrington+Soul+Trader+Identity+in+a+Digital+Age

Metadata

• Author: Anna Webb
• Full Title: Mary+Harrington+Soul+Trader+Identity+in+a+Digital+Age
• Category: #articles
• URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/270385687

Highlights

• In other words: what was presented as a liberation of desire has proved, in practice, to represent its capture by industries calibrated to hacking our most atavistic pleasure and reward systems. Eros has not been freed so much as captured and strip-mined.
• The cost will be felt in countless small acts of impersonal cruelty, performed by computer decision-making in the absence of understanding; in pseudo-relationships that end in inhuman disaster, like the calamity that befell Sewell Setzer III; and, more pervasively, in a slow attrition of our capacity to comprehend, and with it to ascribe comprehension to humans, having accepted the personhood of machines in its absence. Indeed, at the fringes of transhumanist thinking stand those who argue simply that transhumanists are “not human”,45 or that in the future digital selves should be accorded the same rights as humans.46