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Are Prisons Computers? with Ian Alan Paul

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The Concept of Digitality, I Really Liked This Essay

In this essay, and generally, I would like to argue that the digital is a kind of presuppositional logic to kind of larger structures of domination and particularly capitalist world history. And so we can think about price, for example, as a very early kind of digital technology,. It divides diverse kind of multiplicities into homogenous units; there's a kind of commensurability that emerges as a result of the division. So it's a way of understanding the world as particular kinds of standardized units, which becomes a mechanism with acting upon the world on the basis of those units.

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