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In these assimilative and reductive coverings and recordings, Derrida says, there remain non-present, unpresentable, non-coverable, and non-producible traces. Such traces must be thought, re-called, and endured every time any discussion of these events is underway.
Derrida on the Event: Singular/Iterable
https://that-which.com/author/hai-ak/
The point of the silo was for the people to keep the machines running, when Jahns had always, her entire long life, seen it the other way around.
Just as maps abstracted land into monetizable parcels, computers convert things into their digital counterparts, rendering them grist for the exponential mill and supporting the underlying need under capitalism for money to grow. Nowhere has this been made more clear than in digital’s replacement for central currency—crypto.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
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