Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@Graeber_social With the totalizing insidiousness massively consolidated by an analog-to-digital shift securitizing modern experience itself, of course. Anton Wilson: "On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.”

"...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
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"...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

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 18 Sept 2023

@jeffreyatucker 1/ Why stop at polls? With the fusion of military and corporate functions in a single, conjoined mediasphere, vast resources - increasingly, at a machine level - aimed at dominating perception of reality itself, now define planetary war at the level of total consciousness.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @drvandanashiva 1/2 Simultaneously, paralleling its colossal impetus, cloud imperialism's consolidation within and dependence upon an all-aggregating machine-abstraction, reveals the entire ontological edifice as, correspondingly, vastly more ephemeral and exposed than its engineers conceive.Quoted by@drvandanashiva 1/2 Simultaneously, paralleling its colossal impetus, cloud imperialism's consolidation within and dependence upon an all-aggregating machine-abstraction, reveals the entire ontological edifice as, correspondingly, vastly more ephemeral and exposed than its engineers conceive.