{"id":1586,"date":"2017-08-16T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2018-01-31T16:20:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:20:37","slug":"gafa-the-extractive-industries-of-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2017\/08\/16\/gafa-the-extractive-industries-of-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"GAFA \u2014 the extractive industries of the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 20th century &#8216;globalisation&#8217; was heralded as the future, but a subtlety that is lost in the ether is that this was only if we didn&#8217;t offshore the means of production. Obviously, we did.<\/p>\n<p>We are in an age where the &#8216;means of production&#8217; is [largely] in our minds (intellectual endeavour from capital markets to creative industries); while we actively drive towards its commoditisation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1587 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gafa.jpg\" alt=\"gafa\" width=\"213\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gafa.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gafa-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) are the mining our minds the same way the Seven Sisters mined our planet. But this is not outsourcing cotton production to Bangladesh: it&#8217;s outsourcing how we make choices to an Other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seven_Sisters_(oil_companies)\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seven_Sisters_(oil_companies)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 20th century &#8216;globalisation&#8217; was heralded as the future, but a subtlety that is lost in the ether is that this was only if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,29,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-data","category-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mining1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-pA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}