Berlin, 2011
Collage
On a day like any other, Facebook users open their profile and they found a wellcome to what intended as their own biography. I made this collage for the cover photo of my own “biography”.
From Evgeny Morozov’s book “The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom” (Public Affairs, New York, 2010)…
“Throughout history, new technologies have almost always empowered
and disempowered particular political and social groups, sometimes
simultaneously—a fact that is too easy to forget under the sway
of technological determinism. Needless to say, such ethical amnesia is
rarely in the interests of the disempowered. Robert Pippin, a philosopher
at the University of Chicago, argues that society’s fascination with
the technological at the expense of the moral reaches a point where
“what ought to be understood as contingent, one option among others,
open to political discussion is instead falsely understood as necessary;
what serves particular interest is seen without reflection, as of universal
interest; what ought to be a part is experienced as a whole.” Facebook’s
executives justifying their assault on privacy by claiming that this is
where society is heading anyway is exactly the kind of claim that should
be subject to moral and political—not just technological—scrutiny. It’s
by appealing to such deterministic narratives that Facebook manages
to obscure its own role in the process.”
Material in the collage: 3rd Reich Nazi Army, meeting Nuremberg mid. 1930’s + Facebook Logo. All found in Internet.
