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Dark Side of the Sky
Dark Side of the Sky: How the Age of Surveillance Makes Us All Targets, Rolling Stone, Jun-Aug 2023
Algorithms of surveillance and analysis are not passive: they are core components within a ‘black box society’ of invisible infrastructures and opaque operations. We might only notice their presence when our number comes up.
Screen Circuits
Screen Circuits: Fear & Loathing in the Sprawl (circa. 1995) in M/C Journal, The Nineties, Breen, S. & Thompson, DJ. (eds) Volume 21, No. 5 (2018)
The 1990s was more of a feeling than a knowing. There was certainly change afoot and the clock was ticking on a violent century of accelerationism and shrinking horizons. Meanwhile, at the movies a seemingly grave warning was being issued as to what all of this might mean by interrogating a perceived social anxiety around a rapidly evolving information economy, whispers of a virtual reality and the growing hysteria around Y2K.