It continues to unfold across the hive mind of the electronic universe, that strange sorcery unleashed when escape velocity was achieved and a new constellation willed into being. Don't worry denizens of planet earth: the Wickidity is well under control.
The magic of cybernetics is double and casts its spell like an enchanted two-way mirror. On one side, we find dominant uses of cybernetics as a commanding tool of power. Here, high-speed digital technologies wash over the imaginations of those they enchant, suggestively altering our senses and captivating our networked minds. But while capable of reshaping memory and even the contours of perception, digital sorcery of this sort is not cybernetics' sole or sealed destiny. On the other side of its magical mirror lies cybernetics' potential as a multifaceted pathway for life-sustaining connections, resonance, healing, requisite variation, and transformative change... This represents a form of code drift -- the suspension of clear and distinct boundaries between our modern selves and the world; and the replacement of such boundaries by ghostly streams of digitalized contact between beings in natural magical communication with each other. At issue here is the technological transmission of fascinating streams of affect and connection, vibrant streams of contact once banished to the subterranean haunts, deviant margins, and delirious poetic dreamscapes of modernity.
From Digital Magic, Cybernetic Sorcery: On the Politics of Fascination and Fear, by Stephen Pfol
