since around 1990, we have entered an age where products are no longer "just devices or physical apparatuses, but various services and interconnections that quickly become the dominant or exclusive ontological templates of one's social reality"
capitalist acceleration represents a "broadening and diversifying of the processes and flows to which an individual becomes effectively linked"
"Within this emerging context, technological consumption coincides with and becomes indistinguishable from strategies and effects of power" (43)