Saturday Linkages: We Are All Liars
Rather than links today, I thought I’d post a quote from a book everyone should read, Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine: On the social media platforms, the incentive is to constantly produce more information: a perpetual motion machine, harnessed to passions of which the machine knows nothing. This production is not for the purpose of making meaning. It is for the purpose of producing effects on users that keep us hooked. It is for the pur...