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As this recursive expression of the anaesthetic takes hold of the situation, having your neighborhood mapped by satellites and filmed by drones and then turned to rubble is only the first step of a process which then compels the ruins and death and destruction to be documented and circulated online. Life and death come to *make sense* only as data points within a military campaign, only as violent blips to be recognized and registered within the same genocidal apparatus that effectuates them.
Anaesthetic Violence
illwill.com
Again, we can talk about why orthodoxically Marxist responses to Foucault may not be oriented towards registering the function of disability within neoliberal capitalism, but that is for another *needed* project.
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
Note that this does not imply that we necessarily think our Generative AI models are conscious. We likely address them "as if" they were another, what Sweeney (2023) describes as a fictional dualism (also see Coeckelbergh 2011; Krueger & Osler 2022; Krueger & Roberts 2024; Roberts & Krueger 2022).
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