Mechanism
False Elasticity
Narrates itself as flexibility, choice, options.
“Why does every option they give me cost more than the one they want?”
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Hard to see because routing is distributed across many small channels, each too small to contest individually.
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- False Elasticity
- Actuarial Medicine
- Sanctiphagy
- Procedural Erosion
- Administrative Homelessness
- Manufacturing Inevitability
- Seemingly Neutral Systems
- Temporal Capture
- Hyperreal Labor
- Charismatic Systems
- The Heisenberg Subaltern
- Load-Bearing Design
- The Capture of Maintenance
- Lucid Disorientation
- The Subtext Economy