2018
DOI: 10.1080/08854300.2018.1444871
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The Utopian Impulse: From the Soviet Union to Silicon Valley

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“…Such myths, signs of usurpation, hide a domination that generates oligarchic power structures, poverty of imagination, decline of poetic sensibility, conversation and empathy, shallow obsession with digital gadgets, in sum, knowledge aversion (cf. Aschoff, 2018;Collin and Pedersen, 2015;Duff, 2016). What follows from this line of argumentation is that the task of a renewed hermeneutic social theory is twofold: to criticize and negate the anti-intellectual structures and corresponding knowledge-averse culture of the digital age; and to cultivate the poetic sensibility and and intellectual capacity to face an open universe and imagine one beyond usurpation of dominating value spheres.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Such myths, signs of usurpation, hide a domination that generates oligarchic power structures, poverty of imagination, decline of poetic sensibility, conversation and empathy, shallow obsession with digital gadgets, in sum, knowledge aversion (cf. Aschoff, 2018;Collin and Pedersen, 2015;Duff, 2016). What follows from this line of argumentation is that the task of a renewed hermeneutic social theory is twofold: to criticize and negate the anti-intellectual structures and corresponding knowledge-averse culture of the digital age; and to cultivate the poetic sensibility and and intellectual capacity to face an open universe and imagine one beyond usurpation of dominating value spheres.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…That is a manufactured myth that vents rage on those whose jobs may be lost (cf. Aschoff, 2018;Finn, 2017;Jordan, 2015). In revealing the myth of the digital transformation, Wajcman (2017, p. 126) emphasizes that "the homogeneity of the Silicon Valley creators is a more dangerous threat to the future than any perceived robotic apocalypse.…”
Section: The Fraudulent Myth Of Digital Transformationmentioning
confidence: 99%