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“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...

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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...

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“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’...

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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...

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“That’s the only thing you can ever see… what colors it… what categorizes it… is your purpose in looking.”