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It didn’t matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it.
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
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
Perhaps something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an “event,” if this loaded word did not entail a meaning which it is precisely the function of structural—or structurality—thought to reduce or to suspect. But let me use the term “event” anyway, employing it with caution and as if in quotation marks. In this sense, this event will
have the exterior form of a rupture and a redoubling.
1966 lecture: “Structure, Sign, of the Human Sciences”
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