Memory Wars and Data Leakage
The state wants a self that remembers everything and contradicts nothing. A body that forgets is not a broken citizen but one the file can no longer hold.
Tag: autonomy
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The Right to Be Forgotten
The digital afterlife industry sells immortality and delivers undeadness. Finitude is not a defect in a person, and deletion should be the default.
The Analog Insurrection
Disconnection used to be the default. Now it is a luxury good, and the price of staying unreadable is quietly sorting us into two classes.
Sleep Sovereignty
Sleep is the last stretch of a life the market cannot easily harvest. The 24/7 economy, the wearable and the industrial clock have all gone after it anyway.
Weaponized Silence
Silence is not an absence. It is the withdrawal of unpaid labour, and the reaction it provokes shows you exactly who was being subsidised.
The Boredom Strike
The attention economy doesn't want your attention. It wants your arousal. Boredom is the one state it can't sell, which makes it a labour tactic.
The Ghost in the City
A city redesigned so that pausing reads as a fault condition, and what that costs the people whose bodies need to stop.
The Gorgon Protocol
Facial recognition fails unevenly, and hardest on the people it was never built for. That failure is a vulnerability you can put on your face.
The Glass Cage
The demand that you be readable is the demand that you be governable. On legibility, the trap of visibility, and why opacity is the freedom left.