Lee Siegel, Against the Machine
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As the Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said, ‘The world is all that is the case.’ We have been flung into the world whether we like it or not. But the internet creates a vast illusion that the physical, social world of interacting minds and hearts does not exist. In this new situation, the screen is all that is the case, along with the illusion that the screen projects of a world tamed, digested, abbreviated, rationalized, and ordered into a trillion connected units, called sites. This new world turns the most consequential fact of human life—other people—into seemingly manipulable half presences wholly available to our fantasies. It’s a world controlled by our wrist and finger.
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