Thread · 3 tweets · 14 Oct 2020

Weaponising the user is key to legitimacy indeed! And legibility is needed for power at scale... It's a cluster of views that feels just like a resurgence of high modernism, especially the cybernetic branch of it in the USSR.

The great thing with high modernism is that since it places no value in learning from history, you can keep reinventing it! I mean we're still fixing the fallout from the previous wave.

This is all stuff I believe (hope?) @henryfarrell is writing up as "high tech modernism".