Kat Kitay “What will a human being be like who is not concerned with things, but with information, symbols, codes and models? There is one parallel: the first Industrial Revolution.” —Vilém Flusser Software ate the world. We, humans, are in the digestive tract of the global technological-capitalist organism, which Karl Marx identified as the capitalist mode of production and Vilém Flusser calls “the apparatus”. We are being metabolized by it. This is nowhere better reflected than in the form media consumption takes today:
staggeringly powerful words, thank you for putting the piece together!! i appreciate the social critique. i am working on a proposal to offer an alternative to the techno-capitalist snare, and solicit constructive feedback: https://agreeable.substack.com/p/an-invitation-to-agree
Awesome.
staggeringly powerful words, thank you for putting the piece together!! i appreciate the social critique. i am working on a proposal to offer an alternative to the techno-capitalist snare, and solicit constructive feedback: https://agreeable.substack.com/p/an-invitation-to-agree