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The Face Stares Back
It does seem as if the primary work of attention, so to speak, is done not by the person but the machine, and this qualitatively changes the experience of being noted and attended to. Perhaps one way to say this is that when we are attended to by (or through) a machine we too readily become merely an object of analysis stripped of depth and agency,... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Uncanny Gaze of the Machine
Technology also replaces the familiar connection of parts to wholes… everything is just an exchangeable piece. For example, while a deer or a tree or a wine jug may "stand on its own" and have its own presence, an automobile does not… it is challenged "for a further conducting along, which itself sets in place the promotion of commerce."
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