Acquisitive Artifacts - Seductive Protocols, Shards, Statues, Paint on Canvas I

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This protocolized snippet is going to keep reverberating for days in the minded frame in which the me-myself is presently, if anxiously, marooned:

When everything is inside the belly of the technological beast,

there is no “outside” or “underbelly.” There is only a range of

postures of greater or lesser agency that one can adopt while on the

inside. The greater the attunement to the protocolized environment,

the greater the agency. The greater the attunement to mere

technocracy, the lower the agency.

CC BY-NC 4.0, Summer of Protocols | Venkatesh Rao, Tim Beiko, Josh Davis (Introduction)

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From a saunter of 4 days

The crack in the wall completes the Vorticist disarray.

Not just voluptuous models cavorting with bulldogs

It is the unspeakably cool detachment, the techne’, which has no designs on being unspeakably moving, which ends up becoming unspeakably moving

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The protests eventually died down, and the shimmering cast that encased the aura remains