{"id":7679,"date":"2011-08-14T15:41:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T19:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:14:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:14:37","slug":"self-propelling-cannibalism-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/quote-of-the-day\/08\/14\/self-propelling-cannibalism-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Propelling Cannibalism Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"
On the trading floor knowledge is no longer distanced, invisible, authoritative: it springs into presence on the waiting screens, always connected to a keyboard. Coercion has not disappeared from society, but at the desks it\u2019s not an issue: communication networks exist to suggest and transmit every decision. No internalization of the law is achieved or even demanded by the flickering screens. What happens is a multiplication of self-reflections, an outpouring of subjectivity into electronic connections. Communication produces infinite variations on a single theme: an explosion of pulsating terminals that build cities around themselves, the mirror-architecture of contemporary capitalism. The screen-relation spreads throughout the globalized societies, at a pace with megagentrification. At each stop it releases smiling wizards into the expanding trap of their own creativity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n