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The Digital Reversal. Thread-Saga of Media Evolution

by Andrey Mir

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Feb 21, 2026 08:52AM

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte

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The Pasteurization of France

by Bruno Latour

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“Yet it is a fact, not entirely lost on management consultants, that some people would rather work twelve hours a day of their own choosing than eight that are prescribed. Provided, of course, that the work is interesting. That was the main thing.”
― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine

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“The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.”
― J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

tags: ballard, boredom, decadence

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“A great deal has been written on the question of how to motivate industrial workers. Presumably such literature arises because so many jobs have been made so trivial that few people can find any meaning at all in them.”
― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine

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“Many young people strangely boast of being "motivated"; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent training. It's up to them to discover what they're being made to serve, just as their elders discovered, not without difficulty, the telos of the disciplines. The coils of a serpent are even more complex that the burrows of a molehill.”
― Gilles Deleuze

tags: academia

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“In further institutionalizing the great power of the majority, we are making the individual come to distrust himself. We are giving him a rationalization for the unconscious urging to find an authority that would resolve the burdens of free choice. We are tempting him to reinterpret the group pressures as a release, authority as freedom, and that this quest assumes a moral guise makes it only the more poignant.”
― William H. Whyte, The Organization Man: The Book That Defined a Generation

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