Late-capitalist data processing substitutes image recognition for reading skill

Evidence

The consequence of being hooked into the entertainment matrix is twitchy, agitated interpassivity, an inability to concentrate or focus. … Hence the reason that many successful business people are dyslexic (but is their post-lexical efficiency a cause or effect of their success?) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 54

Categorization

• QUESTION: Fisher leaves open whether post-lexical efficiency in dyslexic businesspeople is cause or effect of their success — a genuinely open causal question.
• XREF: connects to: Hyper reading alters brain structure in ways pedagogy ignores. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 422; Identity recognition without political economy analysis masks material causes of marginalization; Data mining actively reshapes and changes human minds — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1680 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Hyper reading alters brain structure in ways pedagogy ignores. #expands (0.82) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 422
• Data mining actively reshapes and changes human minds #corroborates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1680
• Stereotyping functions as profile construction for information processing under data scarcity or overload #corroborates (0.78)
• Identity recognition without political economy analysis masks material causes of marginalization #expands (0.75)
• Machines can treat everyday digital traces as psychological test items #exemplifies (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2375