How Your Senses Have Been Colonized
From the fullness of our physical being we are reduced to mere “operators,” experiencing life primarily through the apparatus, which “programs” both the producers and consumers of media
Kevin Munger • “The Algorithm” Does Not Exist
Susan Sontag (from “Regarding the Pain of Others”):
“Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half’s worth of those specialized tourists known as journalists. Wars are now also living room sights and sounds. Information about what’s hap
... See moreNow the Consumer Story is collapsing in on itself, and is at risk of taking us down with it. It was supposed to set us free and give us power, but many of us feel trapped in a rat race, while the background to our lives is a spiral of decline we are powerless to do anything about.