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The frustration of dealing with bureaucrats often arises because they themselves can make no decisions; rather, they are permitted only to refer to decisions that have always-already been made (by the big Other).
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
So at first the data reflects existing sociality, but soon datafication begins to change social behavior to correspond with how it is being quantified. Becoming data comes to seem like the primary means of social participation, if not the point of it (as though the point of sociality was to “get likes,” etc.).
Fake Totalities
Rob Horning
The “real images” vs. “fake images” framing invites us to forget the intrinsic “fakeness” of all images or, what amounts to the same thing, to believe that we used to have some privileged access to truth and reality before we went image crazy as a society but a special few of us could have it again.
The Egg of Experience
Rob Horning
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