“We’ve past peak social media; everything is becoming slop, gambling, addiction. The open web is increasingly a dead internet, inhabited by bots or — much worse — humans who have been conditioned into behaving like bots. And that’s just what we can see. The really degrading stuff is happening in the privacy of LLM-backed chat interfaces, where humans can spiral into insanity without even a minimal tether to social reality.

As Flusser anticipates, in Post-History: “what we dread is the inexorable progress of culture. Today, to engage oneself with freedom, and more radically, to engage oneself in the survival of the human species on the face of the Earth, implies strategieas in order to delay progress. This reaction is today the only dignified one.” We can now observe, in the brutal progress towards a meaningless internet, the necessity of Heidegger’s step-back, of the refusal to take things as they are.”

for example:

The Tragedy of Stafford Beer

Towards the Post-Naive Internet

Facebook is Other People

– Kevin Munger

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