Benjamin H. Bratton Quotes & Sayings

As the shape of political geography and the architecture of planetary-scale computation as a whole, The Stack is an accidental megastructure, one that we are building both deliberately and unwittingly and is in turn building us in its own image. — Benjamin H. Bratton

Yes, you are a battery. — Benjamin H. Bratton

The real nightmare, worse than the one in which the Big Machine wants to kill you, is the one in which it sees you as irrelevant, or not even as a discrete thing to know. — Benjamin H. Bratton

The Stack terraforms the host planet by drinking and vomiting its elemental juices and spitting up mobile phones. — Benjamin H. Bratton

Platforms don't look like how they work and don't work like how they look. — Benjamin H. Bratton

Airports are not simulations of cities; rather cities are simulations of airports. — Benjamin H. Bratton

Tomorrow, may I have your yesterday? — Benjamin H. Bratton