Seems rough. Makes me rethink the very concept of generativity.

Has this ever existed?

Craftsmanship of web design (and of interface)?

How to dole out a responsibility of variance based on a deontological baseline morality.

Once worked at a television repair facility outside of Seattle, more like a factory, contracted out by Panasonic. Certainly felt like the bottom rung of the life cycle of these televisions, everyone hoping to one day be hired by Panasonic and have health benefits. With a multi-meter, soldering iron, microscope, and some schematics, repaired countless circuit boards, impetus for changing careers. But this article has me thinking back to that experience, which at the time certainly felt "lower, later, or after innovation."

As many of our readings posit the breakdown as inherent in the system as generative sites for innovation.

If you care to take a boat ride on the Delaware River, you'll see a decommissioned aircraft carrier in disrepair awaiting its fate, perhaps Bangladesh.

In time and proliferation leading to aquatic territorial disputes, demarcations of international sea lanes, military presence as deterrence? I wonder how sea security might be addressed.

Are there not such things as emissions "hot spots" to consider in these global registers?

Think globally, act globally, overlook locally and materiality?

Interested in seeing how precisely accounts are settled, i.e. how a unit of revenue translates into a tree planted in Kenya, in quantitative terms.

Curious about this one. Thing Theory. Will look up, but perhaps a brief synopsis?

The project of language itself.

Interesting concept: there is no media object or technological device, but rather discourse or "media operations" moving through devices?

Not equating prison systems with dumps, but I'm reminded of an often cited quotation, accredited to Dostoevsky: "The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons." To look among the social debris where material bodies accumulate or are accumulated to measure progress.

A brief history of the internet, its vision if beyond a network funded by the Dept. of Defense for its own purposes, seems like it would be helpful, especially if later considering "root paradigms" or "foundational ambiguities" for exploitation. Curious about its original design intention, not for the public.

Edit: See Chapter 1

Reminds me of one of the first texts that we read, and how harassment seemed to be targeted at the amount of attention that a person or group was receiving as much as, if not more than the message put forth by that person or group.

Technical term

BFR argue that technology, and specifically the internet, is not the main culprit in propagating network propaganda, that such practices that could be seen as beginning with the deregulation of television networking, have been brought to the internet. What structural features unique to the internet, particularly in terms of information dissemination, could be used to maintain or increase attention to normative constraints that might work to disrupt feedback loops.

"Hard cognitive and emotional work" ... a monumental paradigm shift that I, pessimistically, believe that most are unwilling to undertake or even acknowledge the need for.

Certainly seems "sociologically true" in terms of feedback loops. A false sense of autonomy is a key ingredient in any identity-confirming (conforming) loop. How might a "collective normative framework" infiltrate a feedback loop that feeds off of adamant resistance to any outside encroachment as false or fake, or what is considered an encroachment on a willingly false individual autonomy.

Speaks volumes, as with MGTOW, believing the "system" to be rigged in favor of one Chad Thundercock and Tyrone, at least until women "hit the wall." Seems juvenile, or at least telling in its preoccupations.

Interesting concept. Should this apply to spam, for example, then some spam is better than an abundance of spam as well as a complete lack of spam or else an effort to rid our inboxes of spam, since such efforts would nourish the development of more spam?

Agree with comment below. Hard to believe that this was ever the realistic expectation of the internet as public sphere.

Interested in how mass media is said to paradoxically fulfill The Enlightenment project. Is this in reference to what is described later as hyperrationality, or the "excesses of standardization and rationality?" But also in conflict with The Enlightenment ideal because of mass media standardization or homogeneity?

Exclusionary practices in our American democracy...

Curious if problems faced by building, or attempting to "build truly equal platforms... fit for the 21st century" are truly without technological or at least conceptual precedence?

Challenging notion that "free" entitles "anything." Free except where it incites or intends to incite or else where it produces fear and prevents participation. In a marketplace of ideas, the truth, or the "'livelier impression of truth'" wins out by its "'collision with error."' In a "freer marketplace of ideas,'" does harassment or hate qualify as this 'error?'