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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
youtube.comThe 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
destabilization of the self as its anchors in material culture slip.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
Undergirding the geographies of suspension were networks in furious motion, continual overstimulation, and exhaustive exertion.
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
“The internet of today is a battleground. The idealism of the ‘90s web is gone... The public and semi-public spaces we created to develop our identities, cultivate communities, and gain in knowledge were overtaken by forces using them to gain power of various kinds (market, political, social, and so on). This is the atmosphere of the mainstream web... See more
The Post-Individual
The internet is, after all, a physical presence. Its tubes cross the ocean. Its servers fill up deserts in Arizona. Too often we’re not prepared to visualize it in that way. The photographer Trevor Paglen has done an essential project where he dives into the ocean and tracks the cables snaking along the sea floor. He shoots portraits of Miami Beach
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