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This is obvious in the matter of salaries: the factory was a body that contained its internal forces at a level of equilibrium, the highest possible in terms of production, the lowest possible in terms of wages; but in a society of control, the corporation has replaced the factory, and the corporation is a spirit, a gas.
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze
Time after time, in place after place, these conquerors have fragmented and demolished traditional communities, the beginnings of domestic cultures. They have always said that what they destroyed was outdated, provincial, and contemptible. And with alarming frequency they have been believed and trusted by their victims, especially when their victims were other white people.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Extrapolating from Scott’s “high modernist” examples, however, suggests that where AI systems are deployed, new forms of local knowledge will eventually spring up around them to make them seem to work (an extension of the “[ghost work](https://ghostwork.info/)” that already goes into AI). Scott speculates that “the greater the pretense of and insistence on an officially decreed micro-order, the greater the volume of nonconforming practices necessary to sustain that fiction.”
The Slovenly Wilderness
Rob Horning
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