Working notes for Summer of Protocols

updated 25d ago

The 1990s/2000s era looks nothing like the 2010s/2020s era, but I feel like our current era is woefully undertheorized.

from Working notes for Summer of Protocols

My secret, cynical theory is that we are so completely numbed and overwhelmed by information these days that we simply don’t think in these more abstract terms anymore (and I think it’s that numbness that I want to capture in this piece somehow). Or maybe we still do, but it all gets lost in idle musings on Twitter or in group chats or messages to