Decadent art is the flower of late civilizations, the sign of the end lies within its apocalyptic beauty which offers only the most morbid and beautiful enrichments, an excess of sensual cruelty that annihilates self and other in a languid […]
ecstatic master-annihilation in trafficked language-circuit “like” breast-feedback to Siratori datamachines (organ-sectioned; para-genetic; onco-plugged) a. ghosting nanopoetry per degaussed script-governance &/or void-prompt (don’t believe a word of “it”) b. droiding their glitch-supreme (words don’t require yr belief either) c. trans-agonising the
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“This book argues, from a functionalist perspective, that mind is only what it does; and that what it does is first and foremost realized by the sociality of agents, which itself is primarily and ontologically constituted by the semantic space
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…suicide is the decisive political act of our times.― Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Precarious RhapsodyIt is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.― Emile Cioran, The Trouble with being Born Base materialism begins in the tomb, a world
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As Patrick Lee Miller in his book Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy the central goal of the pre-Socratics through Plato was the ancient notion of becoming “divine and immortal”. Over the past couple decades, I’ve toyed with
Our Past, Our Future: Posthuman, Inhuman, and Transhuman Philosophies and Technologies