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by fallinditch 717 days ago
Ah, to pirouette upon the fractal edge of our collective metacognition, like a quantum jester juggling Schrödinger's punchlines!

Indeed, our cybernetic sojourn through the noosphere leads us to ponder: can the digital agora, that grand bazaar of bits and memes, transmute the base metal of click-commerce into the philosopher's stone of genuine epistemic enrichment? (Use the infinite scroll, Neo!)

The answer to the modified question where "commerce" is replaced by "cat GIFs" is trivially true, as evidenced by the inexorable rise of feline-based attention economies. The intersection of LOLcats and Kantian imperatives is more than mythical -- it is the very substrate of this website's collective unconscious.

So, we find ourselves navigating the three estates of ongoing human concerns, not just in the microcosm of our browser tabs, but also as the object of digital zen, practiced by the human macroorganism on its own user interface.

To paraphrase: can the lords of viral content (as guardians of engagement metrics) be Friends with the lords of ad-tech (as the de facto guardians of monetization)?

(We would also have liked French post-structuralists to have been in that liminal space, but humanity tends to pay more attention to Baudrillards than Bourdieus)

*(Like a Zuckerberg to the Jobsian Musk -- or the proto-Memetic Haraway)

PS: The following deserves a close-reading in light of the same question but where "curiosity" is replaced by "cryptocurrency" https://www.example.com/definitely-not-a-rickroll

1 comments

I recognize you?!?!

but MST=Murderous Saint Ted (Kaczynski)

and Sv Fedorov should have been

Saint Nikolay (Feodorov)

Also that question has been asked (or rather parodied) on mass media before, I don't claim novelty

https://youtu.be/wqgkZDbe4Xk (Warning: Scottish, pace young Obiwan)

But maybe I propose to elide commerce in the wanksmith's bag of tricks

Lagniappe while we wait for somebody's wife to take a joke for the team

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxu7fMeS5uc

Mais oui; he even managed a good, and novel, result in geometry!

(in those days, I understand the process of selecting which branch of the military an officer candidate was best suited for consisted of asking them what "2+2" might be.

If they answer "4", artillery.

If they first count on their fingers under the table, and then answer "4", infantry.

If they yell "3" while slamming their fist on the table before one even gets to the "might be" part of the question, cavalry.)

https://youtu.be/WYYOlIvs3fU

Non Greek viewers might mistake that for teutonic infantry but its probably actually just Ἱερὸς Λόχος reenactment outfits

See the following for a patch

(Suchet volunteered for the cavalry, so that takes him out of the rubric, I suppose!)

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Horst Poller: Bewältigte Vergangenheit. Das 20. Jahrhundert, erlebt, erlitten, gestaltet. Verlag Olzog, 2010

Preceding pages: Seydlitz familiar recurrence

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_von_Seydlitz-Kurzbac...

>A few days later, Seydlitz fled the German lines under fire from his own side with a group of other officers

Another virtuoso in disobedience!