The Circle of the Snake
Grafton Tanner

digital technologies of the twenty-first century can only exist thanks to this kind of outsourced labor. The relative invisibility of the tech supply chain is part of the ruse; American consumers do not see where smartphones come from.

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We don’t necessarily want our leaders to be average persons like us, even though we often enjoy hearing that famous celebrities eat the same fast food as regular people.
--We continuously demystify our leaders - first through television, now through social media

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Initially, the Internet was praised as a freer way to encounter information.
In the early 1990s, digital theorist George Landow saw hypertext as a liberatory reading strategy.

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