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In 1886, after months of planning and preparation, all of the broad gauge southern track was changed to standard gauge in just thirty-six hours: tens of thousands of workers pulled up one rail of the track, moved it a few inches closer to the other, and spiked it into its new position. Railcars got new undercarriages, and the two separate smaller networks became a single, fully interconnected, national network.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
And it was this work that really opened my eyes to the pervasive sensation of surveillance. (Which is why art is vital, right?) Especially because Bridle makes explicit the role of the network and what that does: the first essay is titled All Cameras are Police Cameras.
The camera network today is Instagram, TikTok, other people’s phones.
Apple’s Photo Scanning and Our State of Forced Collective Paranoia
interconnected.org
For there is no star of such magnitude who more cunningly positions themselves as apolitical than Beyoncé. Her performance as an icon is meant to connect with the broadest number of people possible.
More than anything, *Renaissance* is a testament that Beyoncé is a brand that stands for absolutely nothing beyond its own greatness.
The Silence Is the Loudest Part of Renaissance: A Film
Angelica Jade Bastién
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