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Sequoia Nagamatsu • How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel

In any case, I’d go so far as to argue that the dopamine framing actually subsidizes the social imaginary that reduces the human being to the status of a machine, readily programmable by the manipulation of stimuli, which may itself be the deeper and more malignant problem.

L. M. Sacasas • Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet

Technological patriotism in these pages became synonymous with the demand for the breakdown of the law-bureaucrat supremacy

Hiromi Mizuno • Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan

THE JAPANESE HAD already forgotten more neurosurgery than the Chinese had ever known. The black clinics of Chiba were the cutting edge, whole bodies of technique supplanted monthly, and still they couldn’t repair the damage he’d suffered in that Memphis hotel.

William Gibson • Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy Book 1)

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Martin J. Sherwin

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Any positions that characterize people as bereft of agency, as passive automatons open to manipulation or behavioral management, are usually deemed reductive or irresponsible.

Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output. The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

He’s more of a robot than the computational algorithms he owns.

Matt Bucher • The Belan Deck

Instead, like a lathe moving back and forth to cut a spiral groove, we will continue to oscillate between believing and disbelieving the promises of technology, leaving behind an everchanging history of communication.