Top 7 Benjamin H. Bratton Quotes

#1. As the shape of political geography and the architecture of planetary-scale computation as a whole, The Stack is an accidental megastructure, one that we are building both deliberately and unwittingly and is in turn building us in its own image.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#2. Airports are not simulations of cities; rather cities are simulations of airports.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#3. Yes, you are a battery.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#4. The Stack terraforms the host planet by drinking and vomiting its elemental juices and spitting up mobile phones.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#5. Platforms don't look like how they work and don't work like how they look.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#6. The real nightmare, worse than the one in which the Big Machine wants to kill you, is the one in which it sees you as irrelevant, or not even as a discrete thing to know.

Benjamin H. Bratton

#7. Tomorrow, may I have your yesterday?

Benjamin H. Bratton

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