Patreon Preview 111. State-as-a-Platform

Published: Oct. 24, 2021, 12:10 a.m.

b'It\\u2019s a good old TMK where we get mad talking about two stories. First, the increasingly influential \\u201cstate-as-a-platform\\u201d model of governance that France is leaning super hard into, which goes beyond neoliberalism by taking seriously the premise: \\u201cWhat if instead of a government, we had AWS.\\u201d Second, schools in the UK are rolling-out facial recognition in secondary school cafeterias. Teaching kids that access to anything in life, even just lunch, must be mediated by intrusive systems of surveillance and control \\u2013 oh, I mean, speed and convenience.\\n\\nSome stuff we reference:\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 France finds growth prescription with health app Doctolib https://www.ft.com/content/ca41f61e-2513-41d2-9adf-d94b5af302a1\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Facial recognition cameras arrive in UK school canteens https://www.ft.com/content/af08fe55-39f3-4894-9b2f-4115732395b9\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/opinion/benioff-salesforce-capitalism.html\\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nGrab your TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)'