The expansion of suffrage toward ever more universal inclusion is almost always met with indignance (at the very least) by many of those whose privileged position is shifted that much off center. The same is true for Copernican rotations of human autophenomenology off its axis. When the two combine forces, there cannot not be trouble, and the ongoing geopolitical surfacing of the posthuman User will be a far more complicated political and anthropological event than is a technological one. <sup>71</sup> Engineering for animals, AI, and robots is much easier than designing and enforcing the terms of their participation acceptable to those now asked to make room, but what some will call a fundamentalist reification of the atomic private human as the sovereign core for the User layer of The Stack cannot sustain that engineering for very long. It ’ s not sufficient. In the short run — yes — the blunt-edge illuminations regarding surveillance platforms are to be defended against duplicitous cynicism and opportunism; but in the long run, the agenda that matters most is that another User position must be composed and defended. The atomic citizen User, forever scandalized and seeking revenge against the inevitable failures of a enemy regime, wearing sacralized revelations of wrongdoing, cannot be depended on to provide the resilient geopolitical design that is required. Assange can nail his 99 Theses to the virtual door of power as many times as he needs to, but it will not bring forth the necessary atheism but rather retrenchment of the wrong fundamentals. I believe that instead of pleading the Jeffersonian wounds over and over, the more radical and prudent line of sight is toward carving defensible space around the nonhuman User in order to explore the literatures by which human beings can become part of their set. This plays with role reversal and drag, as in Jean Genet ’ s The Balcony, or the old Google Glass App that let the User control the pitch and yaw of a quadrotor drone by tilting his head, even though we all know the drone is really controlling his neck muscles (sic). <sup>72</sup> Recording becomes playback and playback a variation on recording, swapping tempos: the ultimate promiscuity of the roles — apparatus, interface, and subject — all can be recast by one another in the arc of watching someone else watch you, and to watch yourself watching it over again while pretending to be the camera. <sup>73</sup>
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