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Metastasizing across each of life’s dimensions as a thick mesh of platforms, programs, and protocols, the reticular society is both *an accumulation of networks* as well as *an accumulation of a networked relation between lives*, proceeding as a form of circulation which everywhere furthers life’s separation.
The Pixelation of the Society of the Spectacle
Ian Alan Paul
We must note that the philosophy of escape is not itself escape. However, as the cyberneticists have understood well, any transformation of the world is predicated on a transformation of its conception.
All my mania for culture, for ‘really good’ things, for knowing about jazz recordings and red wine and Danish furniture, even about Keats and Shakespeare and James Baldwin, what if it’s all a form of vanity, or even worse, a little bandage over the initial wound of my origins? I have put between myself and my parents such a gulf of sophistication that it’s impossible for them to touch me now or to reach me at all. And I look back across that gulf, not with a sense of guilt or loss, but with relief and satisfaction. Am I better than they are? Certainly not, although maybe luckier.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
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