Rage
Rage without utopian prospects of real change is like living in a favela on the edge of Pandemonium waiting for the rebellion to begin, no matter what you do you are still trapped in a sub-basement of Hell with no […]
Smart Cities and Dark Neoliberalism
As I was reading an article on the supposed hidden ideology underlying the rise of the Smart City on e-flux blog: The hidden ideology behind the “smart city” I kept thinking to myself: Look at New York City for a model
Smart Cities and Dark Neoliberalism
The Governance of the World
The hyper-industrial state of fact takes what Deleuze called control societies, founded on modulation by the mass media, into the stage of hyper-control. The latter is generated by self-produced personal data, collected and published by people themselves – whether knowingly
Let Death Come Quickly
From a series of tweets – A Dark Pessimist vs. an ultra-Optimist (A Daily Rant – BEWARE!): We worry over Trump while the planet burns… is this not madness? Humanity is a transitional thing… who wants to stay its execution.
Compositional Mutations: Nick Land and Libidinal Materialism
With the libidinal reformulation of being as composition ‘one acquires degrees of being, one loses that which has being’. – Nick Land, A Thirst for Annihilation Tracing Nietzsche’s libidinal energetics Nick Land would see four major thrusts: 1) a concerted questioning
Compositional Mutations: Nick Land and Libidinal Materialism
The Magical Universe: Gilbert Simondon and Technicity
The old idea that man invented tools is … a misleading half-truth; it would be more accurate to say that tools invented man. —Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future Long ago in that pre-history of the hominid ancestral narrative
The Magical Universe: Gilbert Simondon and Technicity
The Suicidal Civilization: Technopessimism and the Coming Collapse
…suicide is the decisive political act of our times. ― Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Precarious Rhapsody It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. ― Emile Cioran, The Trouble with being Born Base
The Suicidal Civilization: Technopessimism and the Coming Collapse
Deleuze/Guattari: ‘Stop the World!’
One of the things of profound interest in Castaneda’s books, under the influence of drugs, or other things, and of a change of atmosphere, is precisely that they show how the Indian manages to combat the mechanisms of interpretation and
Deleuze/Guattari: ‘Stop the World!’
The Seduction of the Real
“…images precede the Real.” —Jean Baudrillard Child of Kant, and of all those for whom the Real is illusion and delusion, delirium and the panic ridden world of impulse and evil, Baudrillard would return us to that ancient world of
The War Against Humanity: Technology, Capital, Apocalypse
In Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Karl Marx would ask: (1) What in the evolution of mankind is the meaning of this reduction of the greater part of mankind to abstract labor? (2) What are the mistakes committed by
The War Against Humanity: Technology, Capital, Apocalypse
Günther Anders: Prometheanism in an Age of Accelerated Possibilities
I will provisionally call it ‘Promethean shame’ for myself. I understand this to mean the ‘shame when confronted by the “humiliatingly” high quality of fabricated things (selbstgemachten Dinge).’ —Diary entry, Günther Anders Technics and Technology have been a force in
Günther Anders: Prometheanism in an Age of Accelerated Possibilities
Accelerating Capital: Completed Nihilism and The Indebted Man
In his book Data Trash (1993), Arthur Kroker writes that in the field of digital acceleration, more information means less meaning, because meaning slows info circulation. In the sphere of the digital economy, the faster information circulates, the faster value
Accelerating Capital: Completed Nihilism and The Indebted Man