THE BIG FLAT NOW: Power, Flatness, and Nowness in the Third Millennium

The only consistent factor connecting the otherwise desultory succession of consumer products and services is the intensifying integration of one’s time and activity into the parameters of electronic exchange.

flatness meant that people, goods, and ideas flowed across physical space…

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Within 24/7 capitalism, a sociality outside of individual self-interest becomes inexorably depleted, and the interhuman basis of public space is made irrelevant to one’s fantasmatic digital insularity.