{"id":2670,"date":"2011-05-05T08:19:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T12:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2011-05-05T08:24:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T12:24:34","slug":"zizek-on-cloud-computing-and-digital-monopolies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/05\/05\/zizek-on-cloud-computing-and-digital-monopolies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zizek on Cloud Computing and Digital Monopolies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/marxlacanzizek.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/slavoj_zizek_in_liverpool_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"184\" \/>Zizek <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2011\/05\/02\/slavoj_zizek_essay_on_cloud_computing_and_privacy\" target=\"_blank\">writes this week in <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em><\/a> about how cloud computing is a space dominated by two or three companies (read: Apple and Google). He states,<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;cloud computing offers individual users an unprecedented wealth of choice \u2014 but is this freedom of choice not sustained by the initial choice of a provider, in respect to which we have less and less freedom? Partisans of openness like to criticize China for its attempt to control internet access \u2014 but are we not all becoming involved in something comparable, insofar as our \u201ccloud\u201d functions in a way not dissimilar to the Chinese state?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is a computing market dominated by a few private companies really similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Firewall_of_China\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8220;Great Firewall&#8221; (officially, the &#8220;Golden Shield&#8221;) of China<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zizek writes this week in Inside Higher Ed about how cloud computing is a space dominated by two or three companies (read: Apple and Google). He states, &#8220;cloud computing offers individual users an unprecedented wealth of choice \u2014 but is this freedom of choice not sustained by the initial choice of a provider, in respect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[425],"tags":[3914,224,775,10648,10649,10647,10646,10645],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apple","tag-china","tag-google","tag-great-firewall","tag-inside-higher-ed","tag-marxism","tag-monoplolies","tag-zizek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}