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Metastasizing across each of life’s dimensions as a thick mesh of platforms, programs, and protocols, the reticular society is both *an accumulation of networks* as well as *an accumulation of a networked relation between lives*, proceeding as a form of circulation which everywhere furthers life’s separation.
The Pixelation of the Society of the Spectacle
Ian Alan Paul
The idea that the world we experience is a solipsistic delusion projected from the interior of our mind consoles rather than disturbs us, since it conforms with our infantile fantasies of omnipotence; but the thought that our so-called interiority owe its existence to a fictionalized consensus will always carry an uncanny charge.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Natural-language processing provides, like all the other technologies, the humbling at the end of empowerment, the condition of lonely apes with fancy tools.
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