Benjamin Bratton

“Yes, you are a battery.”

—Benjamin 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 Bratton

“Platforms don't look like how they work and don't work like how they look.”

—Benjamin Bratton

“The Stack terraforms the host planet by drinking and vomiting its elemental juices and spitting up mobile phones.”

—Benjamin Bratton

“Airports are not simulations of cities; rather cities are simulations of airports.”

—Benjamin Bratton