How algorithmic partitioning can outsource violence

Can violence be outsourced through the social media user-consent theater?
May 10, 2025 by
How algorithmic partitioning can outsource violence
Miro Marion

1. The user-consent theatre

Violence can be outsourced through the user-consent theater: 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. Let's test this assumption.


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 finall…

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