a lonely network

[apoph3nia]

Holding a mirror up to content, he sees only his own reflection, like a deep dream from which he cannot escape. [Part one of a three part series]

[apoph3nia]

“We receive, not the signal itself, but the signal with noise added.” - John R. Pierce, An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise

[apoph3nia]

When you didn’t see me, I ceased to exist.

[apoph3nia]

I reject your marble apologia and substitute my own (Text in picture is from Gorgias’ “Enconium of Helen”)

[mayorsgonnamay]

before there was light, there was information

[apoph3nia]

“Technical progress, extended to a whole system of domination and coordination, creates forms of life (and of power) which appear to reconcile the forces opposing the system and to defeat or refute all protest in the name of the historical prospects of freedom from toil and domination.” - Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man

[apoph3nia]

in a world of images, nothing ever dies

[apoph3nia]

selfhood is a lie

[apoph3nia]

consumption illuminates freedom in a deterministic universe

[apoph3nia]

everybody knows your name, but you’ve never felt so alone

[apoph3nia]

a gestalt of targeted information elevates