Shoshana Zuboff, “Facebook’s Oversight Board is Not Enough. The Government Has to Regulate Big Tech,” Democracy Now!, May 6, 2021 →.
Tiqqun, The Cybernetic Hypothesis, trans. Robert Hurley (2000; Semiotext(e), 2020).
Thomas Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Basic Books, 2009), 234.
Franco Berardi, “Destino Manifiesto,” Effimera, August 25, 2021 →.
Maruizzio Ferraris, La posverdad y otros enigmas (Alianza Editorial, 2019).
Andrei Mir, Postjorunalism and the Death of Newspapers: The Media After Trump: Manufacturing Anger and Polarization (Toronto, 2020). Quoted in Murtaza Hussain, “How to Understand the Rage Economy,” The Intercept, February 13, 2021 →.
Mark Fisher, “Touch Screen Culture,” Absolute Gegenwart, ed. Marcus Quent (Merve, 2016), 54–74.
Cédric Durand, “Tecnofeudalismo: la nueva gleba digital,” Vientosur, no. 173, January 29, 2021 →.
Rolando Vázquez, Vistas of Modernity: Decolonial Aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary (Jap Spam Books, 2020).
Ariella Azoulay, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2020).
The Facebook promo video was shown and discussed by Hito Steyerl during her lecture “Bubble Vision,” Penny Stamps Distinguished Speakers Series, University of Michigan, January 30, 2018 →.
Steyerl, “Bubble Vision.”
Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” Socialist Review, no. 80 (1985).
Robert Heinlein, “On the Writing of Speculative Fiction,” Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings, ed. Robert Latham (Bloomsbury, 2017), 298.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, “World-Making, ‘Mass’ Poverty, and the Problem of Scale,” e-flux journal, no. 114 (December 2020) →.
Chakrabarty, “World-Making.”
See Technosphere Magazine, no. 1, “#Metabolic Systems” (2016) →.
“#Metabolic Systems.”
Hito Steyerl, “How to Build a Sustainable Art World,” interview by Despina Zefkili, Ocula, October 18, 2019 →.
James S. Williams, Encounters With Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics Politics (State University of New York Press, 2016), 83. See also Steven Shaviro’s thoughts on the music video for Grace Jones’s song “Corporate Cannibal,” from his blog The Pinocchio Theory, July 23, 2008 →.
See Ted Frent, “Adieu au langage – Goodbye to Language: A Works Cited,” Notebook, October 12, 2014 →.
Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (Penguin, 2016).
Warren Neidich, introduction to The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism (Archive Books, 2021), 23.
Mark Fisher, Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (Repeater, 2021).
Fisher, “Touch Screen Culture.”
See →.
Shoshana Zuboff, “We Can Have Facebook or Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Not Both,” Democracy Now!, May 26, 2021 →.
Shoshana Zuboff, “The Coup We Are Not Talking About,” New York Times, January 29, 2021.
Bernard Stiegler, Neganthropocene, trans. Daniel Ross (Open Humanities Press, 2018).
Caroline Jones, “Questioning the Cranial Paradigm,” Edge Cast, June 19, 2019 →.
Versions of this text have been presented at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, invited by Eshrat Erfranian; at KHIO, Oslo, invited by Sara Eliassen; and at the conference Políticas de la voluntad, poéticas del cobijo, University of Arizona, May 2021.