ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the argument that, as these failed yet persistent magnitudes have each in turn sought regeneration, they have formed a series of alliances: Deity having substantively forgone self-responsibility to the State in the form of the Supreme Court; the State having similarly foregone to the Market in the form of the Market State; and the Market to the ever-widening and deepening reach of Technology, both structurally in the form of the platform and materially in operational terms. As part of this broad trend, Technology has also been embraced by the magnitude of the State as it has attempted its fateful regeneration. Beyond these alliances, a further implication is that, as each has collapsed into its successor, there has been a secondary consolidation across all magnitudes as the Technological form. Because of this, Technology is acquiring the status of an absolute. We are thereby seeing further illustrations of the core dynamic as both regenerational – often through constitutional means – and serial, as well as being subject to consolidation. This consolidation suggests that the shape of the technological move, besides being potentially absolutist in a unique manner, is transformational of all magnitudes.
