The real nightmare, worse than the one in which the Big Machine wants to kill you, is the one in which it sees you as irrelevant, or not even as a discrete thing to know.

Benjamin H. Bratton
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The real nightmare, worse than the one in which the Big Machine wants to kill you, is the one in which it sees you as irrelevant, or not even as a discrete thing to know. The idea of having an audience no longer reaches out and touches you. It becomes a giant memory that is quickly forgotten and that you don’t need to worry about. You avoid people who no longer care about your work and you’ve lost all contact with those who once cheered for you. For some reason, the world needs your work and even though it doesn’t want to admit it, it still has a need for it.

Source: The Stack: On Software And Sovereignty

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