don’t be fooled by the fancy accommodations and sleek ergonomics, the first person shooter interfaces, the health monitors, the VR, the AR, the fetching AI, the panoply of apparent choices

and don’t be fooled the the apparently nontechnical conditions of global slums, forced migrations, detention centers, and camps

on the planetary factory floor, rendered n-dimensional by the world computer and its screens, we encounter the unprecedented extension of the colonization of space, time, discourse, mind and the imagination by means of algorithms that operationalize historically produced categories of social difference as so many inflections of class