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The only escape from this destiny of victimization has been to ‘succeed’ – that is, to ‘make it’ into the class of exploiters, and then to remain so specialized and so ‘mobile’ as to be unconscious of the effects of one’s life or livelihood.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Is it a fact—or have I dreamt it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence! Or, shall we say, it is itself a thought, nothing but thought, and no longer the substance which we deemed it!
The Information
James Gleick
Lives lived on networks are persistently dissected into atomized showers of bits and bytes, a uniform downpour of discrete elements which are then recursively reunited within the computed circulation of life’s dissolution. In the insulated online comforts of streaming cultural events, personalized platform feeds, and algorithmically curated marketplaces, network communities fleetingly soothe yet inevitably deepen the isolation of their respective nodes, *communicatively anesthetizing a misery which blossoms everywhere digitally*.
The Pixelation of the Society of the Spectacle
Ian Alan Paul
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