Howard Hughes
other · 2 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Hughes appears in the readings primarily as a historical figure who embodied the logistics of consolidating power through real estate and operational control in mid-twentieth-century Nevada, a precursor to the distributed, algorithmic power structures the course examines. His casino acquisitions and attempts at infrastructural dominance illustrate how individuals sought to engineer entire environments and populations before digital networks made such systems programmable and scalable. The comparison implicitly positions Hughes's analog monopoly-building against contemporary "theorycels" and network-based actors (gamejacking, ARGs, algorithmic radicalization) who operate through information systems rather than physical property.
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