@WIRED How sadly starved of horizon that seems. What of capitalism and militarism as no longer parallel but one stack—market analytics and weapons guidance sharing a single engine; machine-turbocharged fusion panoptics binding capital and war; the convergence now gone infrastructural?
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Copy of tweet here: end/ In this regard, the facts illuminate precisely what the US techno-industrial order stands for - the world's largest 'crime control' complex, algorithmically-supercharging a symbiotic state and corporate matrix of accelerating social control, profitably targeting the poor. @PrisonPolicy Overall, this increased usage has translated to big business for the 11 EM companies... @PrisonPolicy As we have noted, however, this massive investment in digital incarceration has not replaced our reliance on more traditional “brick and mortar” incarceration in jails but rather serves as an expansion of overall state surveillance. The US model for a rules-based order? An interlocking transnational carceral fantasy serving elite structures of power profitably, militantly and irremediably vested in a form of Final Solution to unmanageable social tensions and inequalities. Moltmann's "universal prison camp".
@lukeburgis 6/ Commerce, conflict and communion all circulate in one mediated space, collapsed into the singularity of the Cloud. Longing and lethality, profit and power, marketplace and battlefield are rendered exchangeable. War becomes market. Market becomes war.
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