by orchaeus | May 15, 2020 | Status Update
“I saw a guy placing coins into a machine that vends newspapers. I realized, suddenly, that we have become a nation of informational masochists. I mean, buying a newspaper is like paying to be punched in the brain. But compare that to the facebook newsfeed...
by orchaeus | May 15, 2020 | Status Update
If one can control »why people are communicating… they can control those people, and their social groups… and it is possible to foment fractionation… that obliterates whatever real or possible unity might have previously been foundational to any...
by orchaeus | May 15, 2020 | Shared Link
Timely: Our identities only really arise and exist in small unities that we invent together. They come into existence, float for a time, and depart like bubbles. They are not possessions and we do not own or have them. They are not stable or static. We invoke them...
by orchaeus | May 15, 2020 | Status Update
“So, you’re a player in the national or international intelligence community. You decide to investigate whether or not you can significantly influence target populations, by broadcasting from what appear to be »both relatively ‘reliable’...
by orchaeus | May 15, 2020 | Status Update
Language isn’t code, it doesn’t execute what it asserts, unless the specific variety of the utterance is performative… in which case, the execution, however momentous, is at the same time, superficial, that is to say, in language. With poetry we...
