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𝑒𝓊𝓃𝒾𝒸𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓇𝓅 - 𝒪𝓊𝓇 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝓅𝑜𝒾𝓃𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓇𝑔𝑒, 𝒶 𝒸𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑒𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝒹𝒾𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝓆𝓊𝑒𝓃𝒸𝒾𝑒𝓈.
in the name of ‘saving the planet’ various international, corporate, scientific, technological, industrial, and governmental forces seek total awareness of the movement of energy and communication at all scales of life. The process of integrating life into the digital panopticon involves many fronts. “Natural assets,” “Ecosystem Services,” and “Green Finance” are all phrases revolving around the financialization, surveillance, standardization, and management of ‘nature’ through various technologies.
The phrase ‘ecosystem services’ refers to all quantifiable benefits that life provides to humans, such as: water purification, natural pollination, air cleansed by forests, medicine etc. Quantification takes place at a scientific level, (measuring inputs and outputs using systems analysis, relevant chemical domains, and statistics) and is translated into monetary effects.
Two, superficially independent, sources of momentum create these systems. Establishment institutions, the academic, governmental, financial, industrial, and diplomatic organizations represent one source. This group broadly pursues mass digitization, citing typical arguments, and operates through major international organizations like the United Nations, the European Union, the World Bank, major corporations and their foundations, NGOs, private foundations, and so on.
The other track presents itself as a ‘disruptor’ and purports (to varying degrees) to oppose the dominating tendencies of the first group. This track is born out of the historical Silicon Valley cyberpunk networks, which often present a rebellious or social-justice-focused ideology. In reality, they originated from and consistently side with the same people as mentioned above. This track also attempts to co-opt revolutionary, communal, anarchistic, and anti-imperial groups and pull them into the digital fold.
Both leverage our deteriorating dance with the mountains, streams, oceans, fish, fungi, and fur, to sell us a new rhythm. However, this new beat, shaped by the doctrine of mathematics, is designed to channel our laughter, spontaneity, despair, and mundane routines into engineered circuits. These circuits project reflections of our movement, light, and thoughts, in a digital version of reality. Vast global computer networks – trillions of communicating circuits – serve as bones. By detailing the specifics of how this process is unfolding, we can begin to grapple with reality and face ourselves in the present.