Sublime

We are long past an era in which mainly things were accumulated. Now our bodies and identities assimilate an ever-expanding surfeit of services, images, procedures, chemicals, to a toxic and often fatal threshold.

Un mois plus tard, Julian Assange est coincé pour viol présumé de deux Suédoises. C’est l’ouverture du tir aux pigeons. Après l’avoir adulé, la presse le pilonne. Sa chute explique l’époque et l’homme. Elle me fascine plus que sa gloire. Julian Assange cherche et capte la lumière comme personne. Quelque chose cloche. Icare n’a pas les moyens de ses

Even a partial refusal of the intensively marketed offerings of multinational corporations is construed as opposition to technology itself.

We are accustomed, largely by scientific practice, to taking things apart, separating them into their component attributes, fixing them for study, and piece by piece reducing their collective agency until they have none at all.