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Tap Out
I wake up, tap my phone to snooze,
tap for weather, then for news,
I tap my coffee maker then
while eating breakfast tap again
to book an afternoon massage.
I tap to shop, I tap to order,
tap for which work route is shorter,
tap just five more times to get
my Tesla from my closed garage.
At the subway station tap
to pay to park until I’m back,
tap my
Rather than being a means to a larger set of ends, the apparatus is the end itself. Its purpose is directing its user to an ever more efficient fulfillment of its own routine tasks and functions.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
1985 essay “A Cyborg Manifesto,” which predicted, with optimism, a looming world of monstrous machine-human hybrids in which we take “pleasure in the confusion of boundaries”—post-gender, post-capitalism, post-biology. With that reference point, it hit me: We are the Labubus, grinning ecstatically amid the wreckage of our rapidly dismantling,
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