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Protocol is twofold; it is both an apparatus that facilitates networks and a logic that governs how things are done within that apparatus.
Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
However, if one accepts that a meaningful notion of everyday life is inseparable from its fugitive anonymity, then it would be difficult to grasp what it might have in common with time spent in which one’s gestures are all recorded, permanently archived, and processed with the aim of predetermining one’s future choices and actions.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
The idea of technological change as quasi-autonomous, driven by some process of autopoesis or self-organization, allows many aspects of contemporary social reality to be accepted as necessary, unalterable circumstances, akin to facts of nature. In the false placement of today’s most visible products and devices within an explanatory lineage that in
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thumbtacks to a magnet, the seduction boys were up his ass. He was a manic new voice, an instant do-it-yourself guru. And, soon, he was Papa’s trusted wing. He joined Papa on his journey to spend face time with every seducer with a silly nickname. And one of them, naturally, was me. Tyler Durden e-mailed me constantly. He was a persistent little br
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To behold, use or perceive any extension of ourselves in technological form is necessarily to embrace it.
Marshall McLuhan • Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon - Understanding Media_ the Extensions of Man_ Critical Edition-Gingko Press
The claim establishes one of the central debates of our time: the power relationship between sovereignty and networks.
Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
Algorithmic recommendations shape the vast majority of our experiences in digital spaces by considering our previous