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Societies of control and the failure of the taxonomic project. Or, how pride flags are related to pelicans.
The categorisation of things stems from but a single aim: to organise very large numbers of things, or collections of data, so as to harness and manipulate them. This is particularly useful–and profitable–as global systems of commerce and administration are handed to the purview of information technology, as big data looms increasingly large on our…
