a form of unfreedom in which one’s enemies dictate the rhythm of one’s thinking

One of the nice things about my line of work is that sometimes I get paid to read interesting things, and sometimes even to talk to the interesting people who write them. Pretty much exactly year ago, I got to interview Bogna “Dark Forest” Konior, a brilliant young theorist with whose main line of thought I find really quite repellent1, for reasons I discussed over at Worldbuilding Agency at the time. I couldn’t share more than that at the time, because [client confidentiality], and still can’t now—but if you wanted a sort of overview of her ideas, this interview piece at The Philosophical Salon might save you wading through various books and hard-to-find long-form essays. It also contains an aside with which I agree entirely, although it’s a conclusion I’ve apparently reached by a very different route. Konior and the interviewer are discussing her approach to media criticism, which quite explicitly disavows the now-standard yoking together of “the internet” with the economic…