Simon Taylor

relations are irreducible to their termspure relationality as the infinitely small (machine or combine) which tends to irreducibility – the infinite within the finite – where there is no same only differencebeauty as the pure transmissability of the beautiful presents the machinic workings of the schematism – the absolute is in actual things

God is dead Man is dead the Other is dead but they leave us with responsibilities   like faces withdrawing to the edge of living yet not quite disappearing ever watchful BEASTS………………………………………………….or pure bestiality which is to say machines machines participate in me.

his conclusion: the tradeoffs we make on social networks is not the one that we’re told we’re making. We’re not giving our personal data in exchange for the ability to share links with friends. Massive numbers of people — a larger set than exists on any social network

Hiebert argues that the postmodern self is technologized along a combination of three vectors. The first of these are technologies of disappearance, which Hiebert describes as “intellectual and psychological devices that one can use to construct a plausible picture of not-being, progressively writing out the residual elements of self and