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Instrumental Power

by Dr.Dennis & Dedfela

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A single from our upcoming album 'The Inversion'

lyrics

A new species of power has emerged.
The instrumentalization of behavior for the purposes of
modification, prediction, monetization, and control.
A force of pervasive, almost non-visible, power that works
Through the automated medium of our computational spaces.
Everything is ‘smart’ now. All is networked.
A sly power that operates unnoticed,
Managing us through the background of our lives.

Its operational agenda is to tune society
To a high degree of computational certainty.
Soulful alienation is the ideal strategy
For a future of flesh robots – the robosapiens.
The incoming project of total certainty.
Life within the new colony.


Chorus:
Social organization is instrumental power.
A technical mode for predictive outcomes.
Pure consciousness will be deemed as schizophrenic.
The uniformity of a spiritless life.
We shall be in exile from our very own selves.


Calculation, modification, rendition, control management.
A mass ‘society of certainty.’
Instrumental power fills the void,
Substituting machines for social relations.
A deepening materialism herding people
Into preselected behaviours.
From dominating nature to dominating human nature.
Life becoming asymmetrical fits perfectly with
An artificial intelligence and its algorithm citizenry.
All anomalies will be targeted and selected for re-coding.

We march in certainty, like the smart machines.
Self-authorship is an act of rebellion.
Human agency – an antiquated oddity.
The new life is a glass cage governed by the mechanical serpents.
All anomalies will be targeted and selected for re-coding.

credits

released August 15, 2022
Music composed, performed, mixed and mastered by Moin Mohamed Islam
All words written by Kingsley L. Dennis
Voices: Kingsley Dennis

Produced by Moin Mohamed Islam & Kingsley L. Dennis

Made in Dhaka, Bangladesh & Leicester, England (2022)

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Kingsley L. Dennis has written and published over 20 books. He always dreamed of doing music but his muses wouldn't let him....until recently. He lives & breathes...

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