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Bridle's take of conspiracy theories as "a kind of folk knowledge" is spot on: "an unconscious augury of the conditions, produced by those with a deep, even hidden, awareness of current conditions and no way to articulate them in scientifically acceptable terms."
"The term "conspiracy theory" has more to do with the relation of people to power, than that of people to truth."

Read the chapter on "Complicity" today and the image of a smart home's cameras live streaming its destruction by a wildfire as a metaphor for our times will definitely stick: "Our vision is increasingly universal, but our agency is ever more reduced... resulting sense of helplessness drives deeper into paranoia and social integration" Curious what his way out of the trust in this "computational" thinking will be.

Love it so far. Good mix of history and theorizing, and I like his writing style. Also, it's a rich idea to narrate and argue it via "the cloud" and meteorology and aviation.