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Our phones and wearable devices are now part of the body. Did “I” make that decision? We don’t remember birthdays, places, or phone numbers. Who made this decision? The injunctions of the virtual world are Don’t Think! and Don’t Remember! According to Byung-Chul Han, “power” is based on a level of internal mediation. We say “Yes!” to the virtual world and feel free and autonomous in doing so. With intense forms of mediation, power is most efficient when it is invisible: we believe it is our own determination guiding our decisions. We do what the holders of power, i.e., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, etc., want based on their selection of choices for us. Meanwhile, we believe we are free and self-determined with the possibility of choices.
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