Organizational CaseClaim Cited
The Matrix
The Matrix, as imagined in the Wachowskis' 1999 film, is an opaque technical substrate that governs by manufacturing the environment in which perception, evidence, work, and choice occur. Its warning reaches beyond deception: when claims against a system must be proved with records produced by that same system, apparent freedom can coexist with near-total infrastructural domination.
What becomes of autonomy when one technical substrate mediates perception, action, memory, and the evidence by which it could be challenged?