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If the most idiotic television game shows are so successful, it’s because they express the corporate situation with great precision.
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze
As Alkhatib puts it, “In the process of training a model, the algorithm creates its own world … and imposes its model upon the world, judging and punishing people who don’t fit the model.”
The Slovenly Wilderness
Rob Horning
Curtis attacks the internet because, in his view, it facilitates communities of solipsists, interpassive networks of like-minds who confirm, rather than challenge, each others’ assumptions and prejudices. Instead of having to confront other points of view in a contested public space, these communities retreat into closed circuits.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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