Scott Benzel Notes on Thinking Machine Imaginaries: Llull, Leibniz, and Lovelace to ‘Shoggoth with a Smiley Face’ 1 Since the early 2010s, the increasing use of figurative language has spread to terms associated with digital technology, including: “big data,” “virus,” “platform,” “cloud computing,” “the new black gold” and “ecosystem.” As an extension of…