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So why do I open with this insufficient account of crisis? My answer is rather simple, if crisis is the reigning object of contemporary economic analysis, liberal or Marxist, we have to understand that it is not a set of emergenices that arrive at a specific maturation of contradictions but is, in fact, a mode of governing that has been with us since the eighteenth century.
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
Filternets are not precision-guided takedown machines; they're indiscriminate cluster-bombs that destroy anything in the vicinity of illegal speech – including (and *especially*) the best-informed, most informative discussions of how these systems go wrong, and how that blocks the complaints of the powerless, the marginalized, and the abused.
Copyright Takedowns Are a Cautionary Tale That Few Are Heeding
Cory Doctorow
I am, however, inclined to agree with Gunkel and Coghlan (2025) that the best method for assessing whether metaphorical language is appropriate or not is the extent to which it helps us better understand the potential epistemic and social threats that such systems pose.
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