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And so I go to the woods. As I go in under the trees, dependably, almost at once, and by nothing I do, things fall into place. I enter an order that does not exist outside, in the human spaces. I feel my life take its place among the lives – the trees, the annual plants, the animals and birds, the living of all these and the dead – that go and have gone to make the life of the earth. I am less important than I thought, the human race is less important than I thought. I rejoice in that. My mind loses its urgings, senses its nature, and is free.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
We no longer find ourselves dealing with the mass/individual pair. Individuals have become “*dividuals*,” and masses, samples, data, markets, or “*banks*.”
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze
Dividing complex calculations into small steps enabled them to be mechanized, while dividing workers’ labour into simplified steps enabled extractive efficiency and worker surveillance.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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