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Thus it was striking how, just a few years after 2012, one could see the juxtaposition of Israel rebranding itself as the “Start-up Nation” while its Prime Minister, Netanyahu, was almost simultaneously arguing that the strong and adaptable survive and the weak are destined to be erased. David Golumbia (2009; 2016) has made similar convincing observations about the right-wing politics of Bitcoin, indeed that such is the ultimate “cultural logic of computation” more generally. With the emergence of the so-called TESCREAL cluster, an increasingly coherent ideological constellation embraced by platform capitalist CEOs like Elon Musk, we see neo-eugenicism with technological determinism, neoliberal economics and right-libertarian social policy would seem to provide the up-front or retrospective justification for many more authoritarian platform city initiatives.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "770315a8-b539-4a06-b35c-87f15e229808", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.25, "w": 0.76, "x": 0.12, "y": 0.39 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "For platform city people, it is easier to imagine robot rights than the acknowledgment of human rights for the workers who support their exclusive lifestyle or for the rights of other living beings. The consultants’ report for the NEOM plan included the idea that 50 per cent of the population of the proposed city would be robots (Scheck et al. 2019), building on a rather curious fascination with robots evidenced by the granting of Saudi citizenship to “Sophie,” a rather limited conversation bot, when neither Saudi women nor immigrants have full citizenship rights in the kingdom (Hart 2018). Again, this links into the TESCREAL constellation, with philosopher, Nick Bostrom’s “long termism” specifically advocating policy directions based on the alleged ethical imperative of maximizing the supposed future trillions of “humans” living as uploaded consciousnesses in machines far beyond our solar system.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "823e50b7-bcc2-460a-a357-c49b50339874", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.76, "x": 0.12, "y": 0.69 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Platform city people are the proposed inhabitants of a new world: a clean, safe, sustainable, technologically advanced, and inventive world of minimal government and maximum empowerment and support for entrepreneurialism and the enjoyment of ownership. The problem is that it is a niche world, an archipelago of enclaves that constitutes only a tiny proportion of a planet in crisis, and its biopolitical exclusivity and violently exclusionary necropolitical character are evidence", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "890be4e8-46eb-4251-99da-486d069e7dd3", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.1, "w": 0.76, "x": 0.12, "y": 0.85 }, "kind": "source-note", "text": "1 Start-Up Nation Central, https://startupnationcentral.org/ 2 Prime Minister of Israel official Twitter account @IsraeliPM, August 29, 2018: https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1034849460344573952 3 “TESCREAL” stands for Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Realism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism, and was coined by Timnit Gebru (c.f. 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