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the internet is the precarious reservation onto which culture has been driven, bleak and uncanny, inhuman in scale.
Simplicio • The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth
The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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If the “State is the monopoly on violence,” as Max Weber once defined it, then the surveillance state (or surveillance capital) is the monopoly on identity. In this time of rising surveillance capitalism, entrenched surveillance states and, more recently, the plutocracy of blockchain networks, this monopoly has never been more important to break. D... See more
Divya Siddarth • An Internet for Humans: Proof-of-Personhood Explained
The profound erosion of trust in the Digital City leaves a vacuum, and we look to our tools to fill it. We seem set upon interlocking trajectories: of ever greater swaths of the human experience being computationally managed, and of intractable human subjects increasingly breaking down or revolting against these conditions.
L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
Liz Pelly • The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
define the borderlands, between the city’s social and cultural worlds.