Notes - The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

flugschriften-6-bogna-konior-the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-v.2, p.5

As if in a trance, Notes - The Gothic

flugschriften-6-bogna-konior-the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-v.2, p.7

Epistemological paranoia settles in—what is true? Who is on my side? Where is my side?

Notes - The Gothic

flugschriften-6-bogna-konior-the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-v.2, p.8

No wonder that neurosis underlies this paradox: everything is internalized, even the weather and the fate of the planet are down to us, and yet we can do only what the medium affords us—externalize, communicate.

flugschriften-6-bogna-konior-the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-v.2, p.14

The dark forest theory of the internet is about the risk tied to the very passport we need to enter our everyday cyberspace: communication, screening the self, telling the truth about ourselves, revealing or concealing our coordinates.

flugschriften-6-bogna-konior-the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-v.2, p.23

15 Fisher, Mark, Ghosts of my Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, and Lost Futures, Zero Books, Winchester, UK, 2014. Digital edition

flugschriften-6-bogna-konior-the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-v.2, p.15

By giving undue attention to thoughts, especially those that we believe to be ours, “it is not only that we deceive ourselves; it is also that we are deceived about having a self.”

flugschriften-6-bogna-konior-the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-v.2, p.16

This is why settling the truth is the internet’s guiding paranoia—what does she really think; but who are they, really, underneath, unbeknownst to themselves—as is making endless interpretations, self-disclosures and declarations so that there is no doubt about the intentions of the other, or our own.

flugschriften-6-bogna-konior-the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-v.2, p.18

Entropy

A scientific measurement of the disorder, randomness or unusable energy in a particular system