3:26am meta-surveillance of orb // Picture taken with phone at 3:26am while underground a few months back. Was quite tired at the time, but after finding it earlier was rather captivated.

Perhaps should bring a third spare battery… enjoyed some of the other blurred, yet quintessentially recognizable pictures of late night Manhattan. The projective instinct.

“Cyberneticism has become an ideology. In this ideology human creations are derived from natural information processes, which in turn have been conceived on the model of man-as-a-computer.” In this mind-state, science dreams up and “constructs man, and history on the basis of a few abstract indices” and for those who engage in this dreaming “man in reality becomes that manipulandum which he takes himself to be.”

-Maurice Merleau-Ponty, quoted by Ivan Illich in “Computer Literacy and the Cybernetic Dream”, Bulletin of Science Technology & Society, 1987.