DEBT INC.: GUILT, CREDIT, AND THE ALGORITHMIC FUTURE
The algorithm functions as a digital equivalent of the credit system—it binds the subject through invisible obligations, a continuous repayment in data, attention, and affect
Dear Comrades, This week, a big and serious contribution from Alenka Zupančič. An essay about how contemporary regimes of financial and data-driven indebtedness entangle our desires, attention, and political possibilities, turning the very future into a terrain of extraction and control. As always, if you have the means and value writing that both enriches and disturbs, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Share What is debt? One way to think of debt is to conceive it as one of the fundamental forms of our social relationships, of our relationship to the Other—where “Other” does…
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