Empire wishes the present to be in limbo between what was and what could be. If the body of
christ can be eaten as bread in the present, women are ovens and akin to objects for
extracting, to be eaten from............................
the systems and powers that be, manipulate us through our shadows, through the negative
space. they shape our shadows as a tool of constant supervisional presence. (He) decides
where we go, how we eat, how we dress, who we are, who we want to be around. the
omnipresence of the shadow emulates the omnipresence of the sun. supermedia is a viscera of
rays materialized as strings of metal to pierce into everything in its path.
and a thing emerges. a thing of internalized metal-ization
meta optimization crystallizes the internal metal and self-digitizes.
self digitization acts as a co-agulant & accelerates itself into compacting denser layers
that act as optimal channels for itself. platforms like tiktok organize users via
electronically storable metrics, and hold up a trick mirror, with instructions on how to
self-regulate. trick mirrors tell you how to see yourself. they show you the version of you
that they can accept.
trying to metric humans out of a thing of non-humanity creates a digital shadow that is
inherently hollow and of dark matter. consumers are the embodiment of the digital ego.
viruses, digital relations and religion follow the patterns of network that they use to
connect. the rigidity of binary encourages nihilism in every person and children are most
vulnerable to this sharpness. self digitization encourages users to see spitting images of
themselves in every version of supermedia they consume. higher definition please.
the user is the unification of the watcher and the prisoner, simultaneously being centered
and neutralized. the user is surrounded by a network of micro beams of light that are bound
into close screens, banishing any sight of darkness at all. the user has lost all sense of
other and so all sense of self. the user exists only in their digital ego.
in black mirror episode san juniper, season 3 episode 4, yorkie lives in san juniper,
simulated reality where the deceased can live and the elderly can visit, all inhabiting
younger bodies, at the time of their choice. the user lives in a place like san juniper
where they are permitted to enjoy playing tales of empire such as endless youth and time
travel just like yorkie. upload is heaven. just as ephemeral, just as infinite.
beware!
beware!
beware! of the darkness.
but it's not infinite. it's not. computers are created through slave labor and colonization.
although tech touts dimensional innovation, it demands reduction of dimensionality to a
metric.
supermedia necessitates their writers to be users. writers are part of their own self
referential feedback circle.
user attention is atomized and absorbs culture through commodification. dominance is a key
mission.
users are farmed for their intent, forming shadows optimized by every metric.
users are farmed of their humanity, their attention crunched by the metric-machine, and in a
moments passing, is used as optimization slurry and server-ed back through the darkness
behind the screen. the darkness materializes into dark matter that is controlled by the
digital technology tool. dark matter exists in the absence of the digital light, dark matter
is the digital light's shadow on the user.
whiteness has ambitions. they want to go out and succeed. the desire to work is the
co-option of religious ideological thinking by the business class. work gets you into
heaven.
whiteness is abstraction of the self first. abstraction for the sake of abstraction is a
lossy compression feedback loop. abstraction in whiteness has a socio-cultural hegemony on
the world.
Reaction Check in :
how did we end up serving computers instead of computers existing because of our curiosity?
