The Hauntology of the Infinite Now
Digital media carries no visible wear, so the past never reads as over. On hauntology, retromania, and a culture that struggles to finish anything.
Tag: technology
6 posts
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 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.