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We can extrapolate from Foucault's Discipline & Punish the control systems which closely resemble the punishment systems. The Black Iron Prison is a kind of Panopticon, locking the mind into its systems. The information is the data of these systems.
The Empire simply metastasized with its higher tech systems.
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We can extrapolate from Foucault's Discipline & Punish the control systems which closely resemble the punishment systems. The Black Iron Prison is a kind of Panopticon, locking the mind into its systems. The information is the data of these systems.
The Empire simply metastasized with its higher tech systems.
Culture in it's own right can be viewed as tool and the secular turn around the 1500's towards practical tools ultimately birthed
Absolutely. Many believe the arts are downstream of politrix, and historically that does appear to be the case, even prior to the Medici patrons.
...ultimately birthed Technocracy.
Black Iron Technocracy