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Apophenia, Win had declared it, after due consideration and in his careful way: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things.
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
The recurrent catastrophe is enabled by a quite specific sin: that of scientists who put their knowledge at the service of any ruler who will finance their work, regardless of the uses to which it is put.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr
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
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