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AI makers, just like any other proselytizer for automation, ultimately want their customers to believe that their systems can obviate situated knowledge and disempower those who possess it.
The Slovenly Wilderness
Rob Horning
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
In The Overstory, Richard Powers summed up the holistic realization of ecology: ‘There are no individuals in a forest, no separable events. The bird and the branch it sits on are a joint thing. A third or more of the food a big tree makes may go to feed other organisms. Even different kinds of trees form partnerships. Cut down a birch, and a nearby Douglas-fir may suffer.’
Ways of Being
James Bridle
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