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223. James Bridle

Scratching the Surface

CHAPTER

New Dark Age - A Book Review

In the last few years I've re-unted the whole of my practice, not just my writing around the environmental ecological issues. In New Dark Age a lot is the fact that when dealing with contemporary complex networked technologies, we are often in a situation in which we do not and cannot know the full ramifications of the situation we're in. That can be a really terrifying and destabilising thing. And it's one of the main effects of modern complex technology and our civilisation at large. Not just from technology as well but it's a major driver of that. But in ways of being, I realised I'd found it a larger, more interesting, more fulfilling and generative way to

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