activities, from robot design to the domestication of animals, suddenly come into relief when revealed as touched by its logic.” – Sianne Ngai, The Cute [^6]
Caption: FOXACID, TOP SECRET/COMINT/NOFORN
Figure text: TOP SECRET//COMINT//NOFORN…opposite, like the gravitational blobbing of black-and-white on either side of the Technocracy Inc. logo (formerly the yin-yang minus the dots), a given target’s exterior calm increasingly tagged to interior tension and lack of resolve…
Cap…Operation Vula, quote stuffing, hydras, Vortex, “Bayesian flooding” and “unselling” Generalizing FaceCloak; exploit and asymmetry…
Fogging, Flooding, and Surfacing, Amplification, Inhibition, Wiping…
[^1]: Lyotard, Jean Francois. tr. Ian …
Edward Snowden
historical · 5 mentions across 3 readings
In this course
Edward Snowden's 2013 NSA disclosures ground the course's inquiry into how surveillance infrastructures operate at scale, particularly revealing the cell-phone metadata and signals-intelligence systems that enable what the readings call "mobile targeting." His leaks serve as documentary evidence of the algorithmic logics—from FOXACID to behavioral profiling—that the course examines as extensions of computational control into everyday life, making visible the hidden architectures that shape contemporary power relations between states, corporations, and subjects.
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