New Extractivism
summary
Reverse engineering maps one device (Amazon Alexa) to its data centers and patents, traces packets through national ISPs and mass pings of Serbian IPs, and produces a public diagram called Anatomy of an AI System used in MoMA and V&A. Interface scraping and patent mining uncovers ~8,000 Facebook‑related patents; a Nvidia A100 supply‑chain scrape yields a 2 million‑line supply table spanning tens of thousands of companies across four supplier layers. Claim: extraction now targets DNA, emotions and attention; supply chains remain opaque, colonial in practice, and planetary in scale.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:12Black box to planetary systems
- 13:16Counter-cartography and maps
- 24:08Geology of media
- 30:31Allegory of the cave
- 41:42Fractal supply chains
- 47:42Techno-solutionism limits
- 58:21Individual agency
- 1:02:14Q&A
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