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We must note that the philosophy of escape is not itself escape. However, as the cyberneticists have understood well, any transformation of the world is predicated on a transformation of its conception.
And that's the thing, is that we're writing things, we're writing these things that we can no longer read. And we've rendered something illegible, and we've lost the sense of what's actually happening in this world that we've made.
How Algorithms Shape Our World
Kevin Slavin
On the one hand, this is a culture that privileges only the present and the immediate – the extirpation of the long term extends backwards as well as forwards in time (for example, media stories monopolize attention for a week or so then are instantly forgotten); on the other hand, it is a culture that is excessively nostalgic, given over to retrospection, incapable of generating any authentic novelty.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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