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Far from making a small shelter that could be adequately heated by a small fire, their way was to make no shelter at all, and heat instead a sizable area of the landscape. The idea was that when faced with abundance one should consume abundantly – an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy. It is neither natural nor civilized, and even from a ‘practical’ point of view it is to the last degree brutalizing and stupid.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
The human-chatbot interactions we describe predispose to what might be termed a "single-person echo chamber" [34](https://paperpile.com/c/Gkdt8S/oh2R) , wherein a user engaging in an extended chatbot interaction encounters their own interpretations, distorted and amplified, yet presented persuasively [76](https://paperpile.com/c/Gkdt8S/M5tY) and carrying a veneer of objective external validation.
Technological Folie a Deux - Google Docs
arxiv.org
Evidently, one cannot talk of IBM's collective habitus, if only because of the fluidity of such corporate bodies' hierarchical arrangements.
Capitalism and Culture: Bourdieu's Field Theory
Dan O'Hara
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