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The deep failure in thinking lies is the mistaken assumption that thriving, successful and functional realities must necessarily be legible. Or at least more legible to the all-seeing statist eye in the sky (many of the pictures in the book are literally aerial views) than to the local, embedded, eye on the ground.
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
Venkatesh Rao
On the one hand, this is a culture that privileges only the present and the immediate – the extirpation of the long term extends backwards as well as forwards in time (for example, media stories monopolize attention for a week or so then are instantly forgotten); on the other hand, it is a culture that is excessively nostalgic, given over to retrospection, incapable of generating any authentic novelty.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
I am promoted, which means I get a new manager. Every time he walks by my desk he punches me in the chest and tells me to think big. He has no face—just eyes and a mouth, both capable of screaming: “IMAGINE IF WE CANNOT BE STOPPED. IMAGINE IF NOTHING STANDS IN OUR WAY.”
Terraform
Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans
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