Sublime

The lesson here is that the same channels of optical fiber networks that flatten media down to a universal symbolic regimen can also be employed to leverage that same regimen to write out or write-protect any

fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity

Yuk Hui, a contemporary philosopher from Hong Kong, writes on the potential for digital networks to develop new kinds of urban solidarities.  He writes , “for such concrete solidarity to emerge, we need a techno-diversity which develops alternative technologies such as new social networks, collaborative tools, and infrastructures of digital i

A persuasive framework for the digital that has ontological implications is being developed by Benjamin Bratton in San Diego. Bratton’s (2014) concern with the geopolitics of planetary-scale computation leads him to posit the existence of an “accidental megastructure,” the Stack.