Was Jaylen Brown taking swipes at media, his Boston Celtics trade saga in recent talk?
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If you are wondering what Jaylen Brown has been up to while the Boston Celtics are rumored to be taking trade calls about him, it might not surprise you to hear that Boston's most cosmopolitan player has been traveling around the globe, and giving talks on things like media hegemony and panopticism while he is at it.
Most recently, he put a clip of one such talk on his personal YouTube page that had the Georgia native in Morocco earlier this offseason. "Morocco is a place that I've traveled to a numerous amount of times, so I'm very excited to be here," said Brown. "Today, I'm going to be talking about breaking panopticism," the concept developed by philosopher Jeremy Bentham through the lens of postmodernist Michel Foucault. Created from a prison design model that enabled guards to watch prisoners unseen from a central point in a circular building and extended to society writ large as the ability to monitor and influence entire populations via technology, Brown engaged some heady material. "Physical authority has shifted to psychological authority," he explained. "You can police platforms and algorithmically influence society with the technology that you can control."
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"The technology that you can control can dictate the market," he added, perhaps taking a swipe at his current conundrum as much as the NBA media more generally. "A lot of people have seen some of my quarrels with the media industry," he added. "That's kind of the reason why I started streaming."
"Stephen A. works for ESPN," he explained. "ESPN is controlled by Disney. Stephen A. doesn't choose the topics, somebody chooses them for him."
"His willingness has made him extremely valuable to these companies. But a lot of these companies and corporations, they meet four times a year and talk about amongst various industries how they can socially engineer and influence our minds through the technology that they can control without us really even paying attention and even noticing it. Just like the Michel Foucault theory (...) Bots, comments, positive comments, negative comments -- (ESPN) could affirm whatever agendas that they want to push."
"They can create the boss they can control, approvals or disapprovals of what is in society," he added. Is Brown trying to speak to us about the abysmal state of legacy media? How it has impacted his career in the NBA with the Celtics? Perhaps both – but regardless, be sure to check out the full clip.
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