Is Bratton's The Stack worth a purchase? I like his concept

Weird seeing this on /lit/. I have a signed copy - it's a cool futurist piece. If you can't afford it, just get it on aaaaarg

>>9610507
Nice. I just want to be convinced that it's not a book I'll drop half way (or sooner). I really enjoyed Bratton's lectures on youtube.

Sell me some hype on it.

> Let me propose that Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly should be part of the standard high school literature curriculum, if only because the existential psychology of the User will prove to be based on first-person access to third-person experiences of first-person experiences.

What did he mean by this?

>>9610524
No why would I do that

>>9611729
because it's not disappointing?

>Just as our collective urban cognition comes online it will be exposed as a hopelessly outflanked minority discourse. Quite clearly the computational intensification of the interface will make it more and more cinematic, and more affectively factual, effectively exacerbating everything we already know about the instability of cinematic memory, action, projection, repetition and pixellation, and bringing these deeper into everyday life.

>The social-psychological results of all this will be complex and contradictory. Pervasive computing will make inanimate objects see, hear and comment on our interactions with them. This experience will, in many cases, be indistinguishable from a psychotic break, or from the affinity rituals of classical animism. In a recent interview, Paul Virilio notes that today’s qualities of technology – instantaneity, ubiquity, immediacy – are those associated with the divine. The killer application of pervasive computing is not advertising to the hipster flâneur; it is religion, and its impact on Abrahamic monotheisms will be turbulent, existential and fertile. The iPhone City is post-secular

>>9612008
not bad, I'm a big fan of Virilio

gonna read iphone city now

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>stop watching TED

This shit is so pointless. What do people get out of shit like this? It's just shitty, inaccurate, exaggerated commentary. Waste your time, I guess, little faggots.