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Complex realities turn this logic on its head; it is easier to comprehend the whole by walking among the trees, absorbing the gestalt, and becoming a holographic/fractal part of the forest, than by hovering above it.
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
Venkatesh Rao
Neural networks “work” because they build on the data-driven management techniques already developed to expropriate and control workers — their output is sufficient for accomplishing that aim (and not because it produces “truth”).
Fake Totalities
Rob Horning
People often comment on how extreme his early life was, Ballard said. Yet, far from being extreme, that early life — beset by hunger, fear, war and the constant threat of death — is the default condition for most human beings on the planet, now and in every previous century. It is the comfortable life of the Western Suburbanite which is in every way the planetary exception.
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