There is a growing genre of tech writing that studiously pretends that a sort of ironic apathy towards technological literacy is the same thing as magical belief systems. It is not. This is an example of this genre.http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/in-2029-the-internet-will-make-us-act-like-peasants.html …
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The fantasy is the point. The medievalism digital brings back is a survivalist humane contempt for this terminal fatalist amusement to death
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The fantasy is *fantasy* it is not a false consciousness but a cynical one
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Lower layer of SEO/SMM industries has characteristic magical thinking to them. I'm guessing its a consequence of inferring practices by poking algorithms. Now that the multi-sided platform model is mainstream, the interaction with it, for most people, will look like a ritual.
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Mere misconceptions about how a thing works (like rumors about how google algorithm weights factors) are not enough to constitute a magical epistemology. That's more like mistaken thinking within an otherwise non-magical epistemology. I presume no SEO types do wiccan rituals etc
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You're writing like Aelkus' psychoanalysis, but less used to the long winded sentences that characterize his criticism
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