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Counterfeit is not possible in the ceremonial, unless in the form of black magic and sacrilege, which is precisely what makes the mixing of signs punishable as a serious offence against the very order of things.
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Jean Baudrillard
But the more devastating impacts of pedal-to-the-metal digital capitalism fall on the environment, the global poor, and the civilizational future their oppression portends.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
Facebook is one of the companies that degraded the internet so that it consists of “five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.”
“Metaverse” Means “Pivot to Video”
Cory Doctorow
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