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The “real images” vs. “fake images” framing invites us to forget the intrinsic “fakeness” of all images or, what amounts to the same thing, to believe that we used to have some privileged access to truth and reality before we went image crazy as a society but a special few of us could have it again.
The Egg of Experience
Rob Horning
Langdon Winner suggests there is a kind of conservation of life force: “Insofar as men pour their own life into the apparatus, their own vitality is that much diminished. The transference of human energy and character leaves men empty, although they may never acknowledge the void.”
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
It was not difficult to eye the hard, cold material takeover as evil, even if a necessary evil. When technology appeared among our age-old routines, it was set outside ourselves and treated like an infection. People embraced its products, but guiltily.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
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