Are we entering an age of artificial 'intelligence' and organizational stupidity? / Cognition as a complex technical system / Machine learning / Is the machine learning / Or delivering instruction? / Do machines become us, or we them? / Have we always been hypnotized by the efficacy of our instruments? /

"We live in an age where the confluence of capital and animism has never been so manifest...the two worlds of manufactured things, and manufactured beings, have finally come together...to the point where today capitalism's imperative is to produce a perfect self, as a perfect thing. And that is what is called happiness." - Achille Mbembe