Dataist

Hara way offers a powerful new myth — the cyborg — for our postmodern dataist era which, according to her, follows a "command-control-communication-intelligence" code.

If the retro-futures are based in externalization and visibility, then one notices in the architecture of Future World the very erosion of the visible and the dataist implosion behind the mirrors of anonymous technocultural interfaces.

And rest assured, as the productivity of the dataist world surges, we will be kept fed and entertained.

Operating a computer is not a complex task. Anybody can be taught to operate a computer. On the other hand, the smartest computer dataist cannot sit down at the control of a computer he had never seen before and make it do anything.

There are not enough chefs and too many "dataists" handling data that our current disciplines cannot possibly prepare, serve, and digest what they make by themselves.

If the Temeraire represents grounded theory (and other dataists) and at her last berth postmodernism waits, what about hermeneutics and critical theory?