Hyperreactive World Wide Web shopping accelerates the rate at which a consumer can acquire goods. What once separated a mere advertisement from a tangible purchase is now bridged by nothing more than a few mouse clicks. Late capitalism, far from merely accelerating the circulation of capital, also accelerates the velocity…

William Shakespeare wrote “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”. However, if we were to take the liberty to continue Shakespeare’s line, it could be said; but men and women in late modern society play many more roles, simultaneously, than anyone historically did in…

As the fractal geometries of big data converge with the jagged contours of profiles and social technics, in a neon-lit maze, architectures of socio-political machinery propel man into a data-stream. Within the algorithmic circuits, the synapses forge a techno-organic synthesis, a new face emerging out of its creation; the neurotransmitters…

On Being a Student Today — In different contexts, individuals are reduced to various sets of information. For instance, when interacting with a banking system, you are primarily identified by your credit score. When applying to a university, you are often evaluated based on your grade score. …

The “I” subjects itself to internal limitations and self-constraints, manifesting as compulsive achievement and optimization. In one-bedroom apartments and corporate settings, millions of men are in solitary confinement. …

Harmut Rosa conceptualises social acceleration, encompassing technological acceleration, the hastening pace of everyday life, and the acceleration of social change. A point highlighted by Rosa is the intricate interplay and mutual reinforcement of these dimensions. As an example, the evolution of factory machinery, the compression of transportation time, and the…

“The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization” (Marx & Engels, 1955, p. 13–14). Neither politics nor the media are frozen in time. Rather, they operate in real time, constantly in…

A regime of waste is spurred, the great engine itself, at an acceleratory pace, like a steam locomotive barreling through the landscape of ‘progress’ with heedless abandon. Fumes pump the pistons, and man is ferried down the line by his own death throes. This stubborn epoch, this age of reason…

Like the dual nature of light, where brightness and darkness coexist, every design or innovation presents a similar duality, independent of its intentions, it emerges into civilisation with a shadow, the unimagined flipside of its functions and properties. From the turbulent fluctuations of the stock market to the reconfiguration of…