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This installation, the user is tasked with teaching a computer the human experience, working for the fictional company b1neur0. The computer provides a set of tasks, gathering data on the subjective human experience, producing a set of objective data results. An endless task, systematically doomed to fail.
The internet, born from liberal and democratic ideas, presents itself as a neutral infrastructure, free from bodies of power. To enter the internet, all entities or actions, Conversations, clicks, pictures of dogs, become 1’s and 0’s, translated into a common language understood by any machine worldwide. This way, all data becomes a commodity, able to enter the global economy.
In this system, users become labourers, and corporations with resources set the norms, and language, that define existence in cyberspace, aligning user behaviour with corporate goals.
A corporate workforce stuck in burnout mirror the masses of internet users stuck in digital exhaustion. The language of the digital, ensures that the users – and labourers – are stuck in a state of compliancy. The language, concrete and analytical, by design fails to capture the embodied experience. As such, the human experience, becomes the counteraction, to the system, in its undefinable and ever-changing state.
see also: Manifesto: The internet – the infrastructure of complacency
