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For Derrida, an event truly worthy of the name must be absolutely and completely irruptive, unforeseeable, and incalculable, bordering on incomprehension and surpassing and challenging its own representation, extent, and context.
Hence, an event truly worthy of the name, Derrida says, already lies beyond the domain of the possible, the domain of the possible possibilities. The event is grounded in the impossible itself.
Derrida on the Event: Singular/Iterable
https://that-which.com/author/hai-ak/
And that targeting process is shockingly good at figuring out who you are and what you are interested in. It’s targeting that makes people think their phones are listening in on their conversations; in reality, it’s more that the data trails we leave behind become road maps to our brains.
How to Fix the Internet | MIT Technology Review
technologyreview.com
Notice how this mob shrieks with delight when it sees glimpses AI destroying both the employment and standards of taste of the educated middle class.
Big Tech's Class War Politics
John Ganz
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