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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.
$ cat /tag/surveillance/
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.
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Electric Field
You exist in fields of influence you cannot see, but their effects shape every moment of your digital life.
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Coulomb's Law
The force between charged particles weakens with distance—but in the attention economy, your data creates fields that never decay.
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Electric Charge
In physics, opposite charges attract—in surveillance capitalism, you are the charge being pulled toward platforms that feed on your polarity.
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Phase Transition
You don't notice the exact moment water becomes ice—and you won't notice the moment your attention becomes a commodity.
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Planck's Law
Every emission has a cost, every observation changes what's observed, and in the attention economy, you are the black body radiating data.
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Black Body Radiation
You absorb everything, emit everything, and the temperature of your attention economy is rising.
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Wien's Law
The hotter something burns, the bluer its light—and the platforms know exactly what temperature keeps you scrolling.
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Radiation
Every interaction you have online emits something into the void—and unlike light, this radiation never stops traveling.