Benjamin H. Bratton

surveillance” of carbon flows is a good thing;

gain, a conceptual model develops a technical system to extend how it understands the world, but what is revealed about the world by that technical system undermines the conceptual model that made way for the technical system

The question of automation is inside the question of climate change and cannot be successfully engaged otherwise, while the question of climate change is inside the question of automation and cannot be addressed otherwise.

failures to comprehend and compose viable planetary systems.

The nature/culture divide didn’t protect what it called nature, even as it elevated the notion to a transcendental ideal.

Of all the artificial effects and patterns that really matter, the impossible-to-sort absolute boundaries between what is and is not anthropogenic climate change are the most consequential encounter with the artificial.

Climate change’s epistemic challenge to everyone is that the entire world has become an exercise in interpreting artificiality.