325 / The sterile future *they* want

As the soft circles of memory open and close, we regain time. The chaos melds back together with choices, yielding a sovereign, unpredictable self. The machines corral us in harder pens: race, sex, income, residence. They define us by our most probable states, by what we do online or under surveillance, not by what we do on the mountaintops or unde

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Global capitalism is nearly there. At the end of the world there will only be liquid advertisement and gaseous desire. Sublimated from our bodies, our untethered senses will endlessly ride escalators through pristine artificial environments, more and less than human, drugged-up and drugged down, catalyzed, consuming and consumed by a relentlessly r... See more