Rebecca Solnit describes a zombie apocalypse on the streets of San Francisco, where mobile phones and other tech are "ghosting your own embodied life.” Will we ever again be fully present in embodied experience? Where is the propriodroŋe when we need it? Solnit says:
“If you object that we’re not in a zombie movie because there are no brain-eating cannibals, let me reassure you, there are. The corporations are devouring our attention, and chewing our lives down to the bone to get at our data. They have shown their ruthlessness in what they offer as long as they capture us and extract our attention, information and other assets from us.”
We asked ChatGPT for an opinion (well, Google Gemini). Genuine output:
"Br-r-r-r-a-i-n-n-n-s... d-a-t-a... m-u-s-t... h-a-v-e... m-o-r-e..."
Time for the Chainsaws! The audio is a clip from Zombie Blues, with the Blood Countess channelling witchy lady Diamanda Galas via Dr John’s swamp voodoo.
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