Authoritarianism and the Cybernetic Episteme, or the Progressive Disappearance of Everything on Earth
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waking consciousness that resembles “a mixture of dreaming, dementia, intoxication, and infantilization.”
individualized propaganda has become the order of the day.
The lord was both the manager and master not only of the process of production, but of the entire process of social life.
modernity’s enclosure of experience.
dislocation is the essence of (imperial) modernity. The VR museum visitor is at the center of a world, but they are not really there
Disembodiment and dislocation are also fundamental epistemological premises of transhumanist Silicon Valley ideology.
we need to flee from the invasion of images, to distinguish between image and reality, and to affirm the opacity of the world and the ambiguity of language.
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