physics
Magnetic Field
You don't see the field until you're already caught in it—how invisible forces shape your trajectory through digital space.
$ cat /tag/surveillance/
circuits
Norton's Theorem
Every complex network of attention and extraction can be reduced to a single source watching you, and the resistance you put up against it.
circuits
Thevenin's Theorem
Every complex network simplifies to a single source and resistance—including the one that's watching you.
physics
Mesh
In physics, a mesh defines the resolution at which reality gets computed—and in the attention economy, you're living inside someone else's grid.
physics
Node
In the standing waves of digital existence, you've become a point of perfect stillness—a node where all motion cancels out, where the algorithm knows exactly where to find you.
physics
Kirchhoff's Laws
In circuits and attention economies alike, what flows in must flow out—but the question is where it goes, and who controls the junction.
physics
Circuit
In physics, a circuit requires a closed loop for energy to flow—but in the attention economy, you are both the conductor and the current being consumed.
physics
Power Dissipation
Every system bleeds energy into the void—including you, scrolling through the feed at 3 AM.
physics
Resistance
In circuits and in consciousness, resistance determines how much energy becomes heat, how much signal becomes noise, and how much of you dissipates into the network.
physics
Electric Potential
In physics and surveillance capitalism alike, potential energy measures not what is, but what could be—the stored capacity for work, extraction, and conversion.