“it’s something like what the French #philosopher #PaulVirilio, in his 1998 book ‘ #TheInformationBomb,’ labelled a coming ‘visual crash’: a ‘real-time globalization of telecommunications’” (boy, those French theorists sure seem to come in handy, these days) open.substack.com/pub/newyorke...

War in the Age of the Online “...
War in the Age of the Online “Information Bomb”

Memes such as “monitoring the situation” reflect a deluded belief that we can be more than just passive, confused bystanders to a spray of digital shrapnel.

The New Yorker