Lounge Ruminator

63. Information Curation

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In this episode, I offer a quick critique on Apple’s power as a ‘vectoralist’ of information, drawing on Kara Swisher’s recent interview of CEO Tim Cook and the work of scholar McKenzie Wark.

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Introduction 00:00
  • Hmmmm… that was a longer gap between episodes than I had planned!
    • Apple as Vectoralist 00:47
    • ‘Is Apple’s Privacy Push Facebook’s Existential Threat?’ on Sway with Kara Swisher — New York Times
    • Apple‘s dedicated site for data and privacy
    • ‘How Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency policy works’ — Ars Technica
    • ‘The Tim Cook Interview’ on Dithering — Twitter video excerpt
    • ‘Curation‘ definitions at Lexico (Oxford English Dictionary)
    • McKenzie Wark
    • Capital Is Dead: Is this Something Worse? (2019) by McKenzie Wark — Verso (links to book and explanatory clips)
    • Capitalism
    • Means of production
    • Neoliberalism
    • Rupert Murdoch
      • To Ruminate… 11:30
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