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@gilduran76 @WIRED 5/ The paradox, of course, is that the more we try to conquer death-fear with a containment regime—total data, total deterrence and total decisionism—the more we engineer the very control stack that annihilates us: the technium and state fused as a single, anxious katechon.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Aug 2025

@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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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".
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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".

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