Asma Mhalla

Asma Mhalla is a French-Tunisian political scientist. She is an associate researcher with the Laboratory of political anthropology, a joint project of the CNRS and the EHESS.She is a lecturer at Sciences Po and École Polytechnique.

Quotes

• Total technology is the idea that technology carries a political and ideological project through its will to power and limitless control. It’s impossible to grasp the ramifications of this from one single angle
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• This binary choice is self-manipulation! For years, we’ve been formulating the problem in exactly the same way on matters of technological surveillance
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• It’s too easy to treat these people like eccentrics. When we can’t take something seriously, it tends to swallow us up! Elon Musk is nothing of a clown, no matter what some people say: through the highly strategic companies he manages, he de facto occupies a geopolitical position. We have to accept the reality
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• Both Musk and Sam Altman have a rare relationship with risk: they’re always taking gambles’
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• The difference is that all of a sudden, since it’s private, cost is reduced and a horizon of profitability appears. And privatisation means that what is therapeutic or for leisure today can become a weapon of war tomorrow
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