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As lives search for fleeting escapes from the degradation of lived reality in the ecstatic experiences of online life, solitudes come to be channeled into friend requests, anxieties into virtual therapy sessions, insecurities into online orders, attractions into profile matches, curiosities into algorithmic searches, precarities into gig apps, illnesses into crowdfunding campaigns, euphorias into manic posts, and depressions into infinite scrolls.
The Pixelation of the Society of the Spectacle
Ian Alan Paul
I mentioned the difficulty of extrapolating from a system in which the outputs become the inputs of the production process earlier; this problem more or less describes the futility of modelling with fields that are relativistic, self-acting and self-generating. Everything has to happen instantaneously, which paradoxically means that the model is static, and therefore reversible.
Capitalism and Culture: Bourdieu's Field Theory
Dan O'Hara
We become more like the machines we envisage, in ways which, in the present, have profoundly negative effects on our relationships with one another and with the wider world.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
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