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we have a lot of workers in the oil fields project/panopticon

But the TCO managers also wanted to talk about something else. “We have a lot of workers in the oil fields. It would be nice to know where they are and what they are doing,” one manager said. “If they are doing anything at all.”

This is what our Chevron partners were most keen to discuss: how to…

—p.23 Nature (Logic #9) Oil is the New Data (15) missing author
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we have a lot of workers in the oil fields project/panopticon

But the TCO managers also wanted to talk about something else. “We have a lot of workers in the oil fields. It would be nice to know where they are and what they are doing,” one manager said. “If they are doing anything at all.”

This is what our Chevron partners were most keen to discuss: how to…

—p.23 Oil is the New Data (15) missing author
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there was never any Eden to return to

Technological mastery is a myth. Prometheus is not coming. In truth, everything is dirty, even the digital—especially the digital. Computers were supposed to be made of sunshine: “all light and clean because they are nothing but signals,” as another contributor to this issue famously wrote on her f…

—p.13 The Last Man (11) missing author
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the entanglements of nature and technology

We have been told two things about the relationship between technology and nature. The first is that technology has enabled humans to master nature. The second is that technology has caused humans to destroy nature.

At the intersection of these two stories lies the idea of the Anthropocene. The …

—p.12 The Last Man (11) missing author
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