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Many of the Noema articles are like that. I looked it up and found that its made by the Berggruen Institute, a US-based think tank, but i have no idea what thei
by blueflow 3y ago
Many of the Noema articles are like that. I looked it up and found that its made by the Berggruen Institute, a US-based think tank, but i have no idea what their interests are. The sprinkled-in jargon seems to be an aspect of self-promotion, overdoing it to the extent that it starts to read like a poem instead of having content.
- the-printer 3y agoMy guess is that their interests lie somewhere near the advocacy of something like a techno-democracy. Where "tech" is used dually to refer to "technocracy" in the traditional sense and as alluded to in this article, "technology", as an extension of government. https://www.noemamag.com/approaching-the-infopocalypse/ https://www.noemamag.com/approaching-the-infopocalypse/ https://www.noemamag.com/participation-at-scale-can-repair-the-public-square/ https://www.noemamag.com/participation-at-scale-can-repair-t... An interesting NYT profile from last year on Nicolas Berggruen: https://archive.is/ScoBe https://archive.is/ScoBe