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We can all sense the craziness in the air, the feeling of our moorings being cut one by one. It feels hard sometimes just to stay upright as we live through what feels like a threefold earthquake: a global ecological breakdown, the cultural disintegration of the West, and the rise of networked technologies of control and surveillance which daily have us tighter in their grip. The powers of the world sometimes seem to be merging: corporate power, state power, institutional power, ideological power, the power of the oligarchs who built and control the internet, the power of the network itself. Some days it can feel as if we are living inside the plot of a piece of twentieth-century dystopian sci-fi. The twist is that this time Agent Smith is the hero, while Neo has been dismissed as a far-right conspiracy theorist.
What is at the root of all this – and how might we navigate it?
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