Soverance
How progress makes us responsable for our own surveillance What if we had sold our freedom of choice simply by signing a (virtual) contract? Every time we accept a website’s terms and conditions, it is as if we step into the Lumon elevator from Severance, Dan Erickson’s TV series: we cross a threshold beyond which we begin serving a master we cannot see. Yet, while in the series a surgical procedure is required to sever employees’ memories, in reality an algorithm is enough to create our...