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Yes, we watch this perfect blend of man and machine, but we speak of the machine as though it were not of human origin, as though the machine, being born from science could—eventually, through its iterative processes—sublimate human flaws. The driver, being human, knows this is false. His intimacy with the machine is the necessary missing connection, and even if the machine were perfect, it was made for imperfect hands. But it is never perfect. The gaps in its perfection are where disasters transpire, but also miracles.
Behind F1's Velvet Curtain
Kate Wagner
Machines serve to contain the knowledge generated by labor practices and route it toward capitalist ends. “Being itself an embodiment of the division of labour, the machine then becomes the apparatus to discipline labour and regulate the extraction of relative surplus value,” Pasquinelli writes.
Fake Totalities
Rob Horning
Meanwhile, as “the new bourgeois agents of culture increased in number,” Engelsing wrote, they no longer could find adequate employment; “these ‘free-floating intellectuals’ constituted a potential for unrest through their explicit questioning of the traditional system.”
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
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