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There are signs that make the victory of technocapitalism seem inevitable—Aspergers is a genetic mutation that makes people more like machines—see Jeremy Bentham, or all of the 17th century British scientists who invented the Royal Society and the modern institution of science, or the aspergers-heavy STEM departments. Their logic-rich, empathy-poor minds are literally made to interface better with cold unfeeling machines, and most human emotions are alien to them. I don’t claim to know the causation, but they seem to be harbingers of an accelerationist future run entirely by automation, mechanization, and rationalization, devoid of the emotional sparks that drive what we have up until now understood to be humanity. We’re at a strange point of transition now, where we can still see the remains of a once vibrant culture slowly slipping away, being supplanted by the tech monoculture that the future is hurtling towards. The question is whether it’s too late for those of us still breathing, who look around and see the tremendous loss happening all around us every time some unique aspect of the world is usurped by the cold machine of neoliberal capitalism, to do anything to stop it. My only hope is that we can change the consciousness around the march of technology, through art, reverse-engineering the channels of representation that shape people’s thinking. But most times, this feels like very wishful thinking.