RT @nick_routledge: @jamespoulos What if the dark, mercenary genius of algorithmically-supercharged, exploitative media-ecology's claim upon the private soul is ultimately checked only in recognizing its larger, evolutionary role delivering us to a sunburst of revelation overturning the tables of history itself?
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Copy of tweet: Nick_routledge and "...the backstage fusion between human and machine authority....modes of governance normalised by digital platforms...algorithmic level of governance as an increasingly key field of political struggle...digital post-democracy...‘swarm governance’..." 5:04 AM · Dec 2, 2022 from Cottage Grove, OR
@johnrobb 1/ Yup. And, viewed in larger, evolutionary terms, this ostensibly dire progression follows a predictable, apocalyptic logic. Not apocalyptic in the sense in which the word is used colloquially to refer to catastrophes, but in the word’s original sense of revelation or unveiling.
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