Julius Gavroche’s Reading our times with Now examines the book Now (2017) by The Invisible Committee. Also a nice comparison RoboCop’s Dallas Shooting Locations 1986/2012 (history has ended).
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Visited Dxxxa D, Hzzzt & Minkki LE COURATEUR launch party at Cafe Mascot. Also digging Rauhatäti moves.
Quotes from Fuck off, Google by Invisible Committee (2014). Self-published.
“Just as political economy produced a homo economicus manageable in the framework of industrial States, cybernetics is producing its own humanity. A transparent humanity, emptied out by the very flows that traverse it, electrified by information, attached to the world by an ever-growing quantity of apparatuses.”
“In this vision, the metropolis doesn’t become smart through the decision-making and action of a central government, but appears, as a ‘spontaneous order’, when its inhabitants ‘find new ways of producing, connecting, and giving meaning to their own data.’ The resilient metropolis thus emerges, one that can resist every disaster.”