@jessamyn @steve @timnitGebru I briefly live tweeted it here: https://twitter.com/thadk/status/1565317949216497665?s=20 (I probably recalled it better after 2 days than after 6 months.)
Geert #glovink was a strong presence throughout and some searching just turned up his subsequent Nov'22 inaugural lecture which has some common themes:
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf
Measures such as ‘ethical AI’ and ‘good data’ will not bring about social justice, end racial capitalism or forestall climate disaster. How to channel discontent and counter-hegemony into an actual transfer of power? By
#glovink #geertlovink
https://eurozine.com/extinction-internet/
"The proposition here is a renewed notion of social networks with an emphasis on caring, tools for intergenerational computation that serve problem- resolution on all levels of the stack of crises." #glovink
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf
“Convince me that this is not the digital dark age,” Regina Harsanyi declared [on the bird site] in 2022. The loss of private space feels real. And in many ways, it is. We have been pulled into a virtual black hole. Yet, there is beauty in the breakdown. ' #glovink
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf
"a phenomenal seismographic sensibility toward the dark states of the young minds, glued to their devices. Reading the pulse in this way, in tune with Gen-Z—the first generation to experience the internet as a given, a fixed sphere - a shared overall strategy here: a strong belief that society needs to face the abyss. This is where political discontent is allocated, at the heart of the social unconscious. Denial will only further accelerate the unfolding crises—but in whose interest?" #glovink
"The human mind has reached a state of saturation." #glovink
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf
'... 21st century version of psychoanalysis. In The Third Unconscious, Franco Berardi calls for a psychoanlysis “that should assume the horizon of chaos and exhaustion as a starting point for reflection.”' #glovink p18
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf
"My generation found out early that the internet, in Derrida’s and Stiegler’s terms, is a pharmakon: it is both toxic and curative. The critique on its underlying premises, for instance, the Californian Ideology, is thus both a rejection and a proposition. ... First diagnosis, then restorative care. Two necessary steps to begin the process of healing." #glovink p15
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf
'Can today’s internet culture withstand entropy and overcome infinite capture while facing its never-ending ending? This is the legacy question left to us by the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, who passed away in August 2020. #glovink
https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ExtinctionInternetINC2022Miscellanea.pdf