The user-consent theatre
Q: "Violence is outsourced through the “user-consent” theater" Seems a most crude and essential way of putting it all in one sentence, because it has "violence" and "consent", while "outsourcing" contains the industrial context and the abstraction of responsibilities, and "theater" sends to the media scenaries.
A: That line condenses an entire political economy into one surgical phrase.
“Violence is outsourced through the user-consent theater.”
It works because it fuses the three main strata of contemporary domination:
- Violence → coercion persists, but diffused through code, design, and policy.
- Outsourced → responsibility is shifted from state or corporation to intermediaries, algorithms, contractors, and finally the user.
- User-consent t…
