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Psychopolitics by Byung-Chul Han: A Review
Fantastic book. I don’t know what it is about this book. I actually -- if I'm being honest, I don't even know what this is about anymore. I’ve got some thoughts. Here's one - what the hell is this book. After reading it, one feels the modern malaise. It feels condensed and put into one book, but also meanders. It just about... captures the modern ennui so well just enough that you'd finish it one sitting which I did. So many things I want to say, or feel about the world, and it’s sort of condensed into a book. I’ve put so many bookmarks into here. This feeling of how we are moving from discipline to freedom, but the container - how we are less free than ever, in a way. Psychopolitics, it’s a way to exploit the human fully. Big data, as the end game of meaningless and how the Spirit, the Geist dies this way.
Do we want to live in a world like this? Gamification, emotional design of consumerism. Hijacking emotion. Positivity only. Facebook as this example of the ultimate panopticon, but we’re helping people do it themselves, not through a disciplinarian way like before. The way this book keeps it simple, but stabs insightfully and without holding back. In such a short period of time, is actually quite difficult. I don’t know. I don’t know how do you write a book like this. I do like, that it is less than 100 pages. It also isn’t extremely sentimental either. Baudrillard for example, reading him I can feel the annoyance and the cigarette smoke coming through. Either way, great book. It touches on so many things. I’m going to be thinking about this book for a while. Great books, I think about them for a while afterwards. This was one of them. 6 replies
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Ideas of future devices we've thought about beyond Roc Camera:
- Pin devices - Humane like, that sounds fun - but low processing power, means we have to rely on phone or cloud. Ew.
- Local Alexa replacement that sits in your house and houses all of your data - so there is no cloud anymore, just your private cloud - that runs a local model that doesn't suck - or is connected to the cloud. Essentially an embedded GPU with voice
- Put Roc camera, but with wheels or as a multi-rotor
- Dynamicland like computing environments for your home (I'm still not convinced that AR-like glasses are the way to go shared environment just seems more... fun) - I like this because it also projects images onto things that already exist in your physical space and makes physical/digital divide more connected in a 1-to-1 way
- And more...
We are going to keep growing Roc Camera beyond v1:
- We're planning v2 already for the camera, there will be upgrades / things we want to do in v1, but didn't quite make it so we cut it for v2
- TBD on the details, but things like GPS, audio, video, live streaming etc
- The general core thesis is: how to build physical technology that connect humans in a real way this age of AI 4 replies
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