it's beyond just despotic - that is intensely dystopian, and everything I am against
and not against in the it's not actually serious way of arguing about music on a message board, but dead serious, every fiber of my being against
it's not very serious here - because it is just a message board - but it's the true nightmare vision of the general irl near and further future
I don't want to dance around this, but this is precisely why I try to give the disclaimers that I give ("Not sure if I would firmly defend this or that articulation" etc)
There is something profoundly regimented and machinic about this - but it is attempting to merely be a conceptual mirror of the way that we, as organisms, as vastly ramified assemblages of intelligent matter, are
already profoundly regimented/organized.
Much of the difficulty I have in grappling with all of this is the tendency for diametrically opposed dynamics to seemingly operate in harmony. I can detect an algorithmic and machinic ontology, but I can also detect a floating, improvisational, situational ontology as well. It seems to involve a weaving between ontologies, and the algorithm would pertain to this weaving. That is, the weaving-between-ontologies would be a function of sorts, algorithmic, whereas the ontologies would function as modes/moods that would be prompted in response to particular circumstances. There would be freer, more romantic, more sensitive modes, and there would be more zen, cognitive/computational modes (although I am hesitant to use the term "computational")
Much of it revolves around calibrating conscious agency with preconsicous agency, aligning ones ideals and strategies and epistemologies with how intelligent matter
seems to operate.
And I cannot stress enough, much of this can take seemingly abrupt and sharp turns, in terms of the reasoning/explanation of it.
Overall, I think I can understand, and even argue for, an opposition to something that would
be this algorithmic. The thing is, as far as I can tell, it isn't the
being that is algorithmic, but the
weaving between beings that would be algorithmic. It is just a higher order ontology, one that can, perhaps, keep intact the ontologies that we value and introduce new ones.