In the asylum
of the algorithm
“there is no democracy”

“Inmates are tracked
without their consent,
into well-demarcated groups”

If it becomes painful,
think someone’s ode
becomes the poetry of

our social relations
and in that panopticon
you no longer have to worry

about accountability
about care
the algorithm is
about and its pincer-grip

is the new groping
of online submission
to an all-blinding eye.

                           —animasuri’24

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Albert, D. (2001, Sep 5). Introduction. IN: Gatto, J. T. (1992, 2005). Dumbing Us Down. The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. p. xvii (Introduction). Gabriola Island, Canada: New Society Publishers. Last retrieved on September 7, 2023 from https://archive.org/search?query=Dumbing+Us+Down