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Napoleon seemed to effect the large-scale conversion from one society to the other. But in their turn the disciplines underwent a crisis to the benefit of new forces that were gradually instituted and which accelerated after World War II: a disciplinary society was what we already no longer were, what we had ceased to be.
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze
Second, and in my eyes more interestingly, I analyse cases where users' own false beliefs are not merely stored or retrieved through AI systems but are actively affirmed, elaborated, and validated through conversational interaction with AI. In these instances, AI systems can function as quasiinterpersonal partners in the co-construction of beliefs, memories, and self-narratives.
The Net negates geometry — it is anti-spatial. People do not go to it, simply, they log-in, mostly through an address. Our definition of address is no longer a location, but an access code to enter places on the Net. This eliminates a dimension of civic legibility.
[STUDY] WILLIAM J. MITCHELL — CITY OF BITS: SPACE, PLACE, AND THE INFO BAHN | by Ethan Chung | Medium
Ethan Chung
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