“But as these once esoteric ideas and practices circulate in the hypermediated networks of digital exposure, they change, losing charisma and fusing with a larger crisis that is, paradoxically, both apocalyptic and tediously bleak. Indeed, who would have thought that a vertiginous slide into a creepy sci-fi dystopia would feel so banal?”

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