Failing Like a State
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Theories of technological domination are compelling not only because of their critical force but also because of their consolatory effect. They lend a certain heroism and grandeur to the idiocy and messiness of social decline. It is more honorable to imagine oneself as the victim of total surveillance and control than to admit that the disintegration of the social fabric and the deterioration of public discourse may arise from our own capacity for self-ruin. There is, in other words, something f
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