Long posts

"…the topos of Big Data is indeed metaphysical, which has, according to Miles, morphed the accumulation of digital bits into a celestial being, a deity of data imaged as idol of algorithmic theodicy registering ethereal awe and the need for contemporary visionaries, sybils who might offer (for a price) direct divination and categorical certainty, drawn from the cosmos of celestial code. As Miles notes, even in a stochastic age, the possibility of clarity from an apotheosis of data has its draw. The dream of clear communicative enlightenment, of pure contact with knowledge, might indeed be the promise of contemporary seers, proprietors who purport that their analyses can provide 'unprecedented insight' that can 'maximize value.'"

• https://icarianseas.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/no-one-can-be-told-what-the-matrix-is-you-have-to-see-it-a-rhetorico-poetic-morphology-of-big-datas-protean-cosmos/