If you want a description of a living universality emanating from the Black Radical Tradition, one of the most biting critiques of European Ideology, and a sublation of humanism that'd make Stirner blush, you can't go any harder than Aimé Césaire.
Negarestani was right, the study and extraction of oil truly is a kind of planetary demonology. Look into the burning water of Hades itself and see only man's addictions, its possession *by* rather than *of* petroleum.
"Some students want Nietzsche in the same way that they want a hamburger; they fail to grasp – and the logic of the consumer system encourages this misapprehension – that the indigestibility, the difficulty is Nietzsche."-Mark Fisher
Artificial intelligence systems trained on the works of specific philosophers to “do philosophy” as them may help us better understand those philosophers’ ideas, and explore how they might think about problems they never considered in their lifetimes.
@kayandskittles
Lmao speaks of the body leaving us as we become further integrated into the informational matrix of cyberspace, the ass is left behind as we join with the screen. Rofl is too embodied (and who can afford rent on a flat with that much floor these days? People aint made of floor!)
"Georges Bataille and the other members of the Acephale Cult assemble around a tree destroyed by lightning, they meditate and each member offers themselves as the sacrifice, but none as an executioner."
The world spirit on horseback is absent. The steed of history has bolted—terrified and bloodied, through the chartered streets of a decaying empire; which in its everlasting hatred for a free world refuses to die alone.
I think materially and politically the conditions for this make sense. Folks often forget this book was a response to the New Labour era, a 'centrist' (right-wing) hegemony which suppressed leftist political desires on behalf of global capital, actively hostile to the future.
🔺 NEW: Labour declares itself the party of law and order as it pledges to give the victims of antisocial behaviour power to decide how perpetrators are punished
This shit ain't nothin to me man. We smokin Sadie Plant. We gettin heat-fucked off that Shanghai Outsideness necrotic popcorn Lemur kush. Call this discourse the Vampire's Castle, because I'm in this mf and I can't get out.
Labour's plan to tackle antisocial behaviour includes:
✅ 13,000 more police and PCSOs
✅ Powers to ban repeat offenders from town centres
✅ Reversing the Tories’ decision to downgrade shoplifting of items under £200
✅ A new programme to divert young people away from crime
e/acc is a psyop to make Landianism look intellectually rigorous by comparison. Absolute fantasmal grifting from venture capitalists and their outriders.
One of the thinkers who broke me out of a certain Hegelian dogmatic certainty (although I wouldn't consider myself a deleuzian). A genuinely brilliant thinker from the Post-Kantian lineage as an alternative to idealism as the end of philosophy imo. Bad reader of Stirner however.
@petesalmon
This was agony to read. The transcript is worse: "There had to be a way of knowing things that went beyond reason, and for him [Kant] that meant developing a theory of being critical of reason, hence critical theory." Just comically bad at reading, these Princeton history profs.
Since The Story of the Eye went public domain this year I have had to beg Craig not to use this for a cover if we ever considered doing an edition with an intro ourselves.
BREAKING: A large Florida landlord announces that he will begin requiring all new and existing tenants to provide proof of COVID vaccination, saying, “You don't want to get vaccinated? You have to move, and if you don't, we will evict you.” RT IF YOU SUPPORT THE LANDLORD’S MOVE!
The violence with which the EU, UK, and the US maintains its borders and refugee camp systems technologically, politically, and historically is a development of their colonial apparatuses. They defend Israel's colonialism because it's a redeployment of the same systemic axioms.
The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy. Out Winter 2024! A huge thanks to
@acidhorizonpod
for the cover design
@pen_keeper
for the amazingly affective and libidinally-charged artwork, it brought out everything in the sprawling digital unconscious of the work!
"Destitution and Dialectic: The Insurrectionary Thought of Max Stirner" is submitted and hopefully will be out on open access by the end of this year after any post-viva revisions ofc.
This shit aint nothin to me man. We smokin that agambenious kush, shit so loud it made Jean-Luc Nancy need a third heart transplant. I can't be reduced to bare life, I'm ontologically loaded.
I Nick so much Land call it British Foreign Policy.
BREAKING: A judge revokes a Chicago mom’s custody of her 11-year-old son after she admits that she is unvaccinated. The dad is vaccinated, and will retain custody until she is. RT IF YOU SUPPORT THE JUDGE’S DECISION TO PUT THE CHILD’S SAFETY BEFORE HER MOM’S DANGEROUS IGNORANCE!
Working my way through On Several Regimes of Signs on 'abstract machines' and these old Diagrams from F.H. George's Automation, Cybernetics, and Society are helping. If representation is a stand-in function, then actual agents are stand-ins for the functions themselves.
I do love how they've realized decline and anxiety is just as good as an advertising pull as hope and ambition (if not more). Consumption staves off precarity rather than sells a narrative of a certain conspicuous prosperity.
"AI" does not exist. Bezos called Mechanical Turk "artificial AI" for a reason. It will only ever be marketing copy that will obscure the relations of production and the worker enslaved to the machine.
Amazon billed its "Just Walk Out" stores as some triumph of AI. In reality, it was powered by thousands of low-paid Indian workers manually adding up items in your cart as you shopped.
How insanely dystopian.
David Cronenberg wrote a triple/quadruple psychoanalytic biopic with Sabina Spielrein, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Otto Gross. I don't think this genius is acknowledged enough tbh. It is the most Cronenberg film.
"The fact is, whatever data or graphs they draw up, nothing will erase the fact that police cars were on fire in dozens of American cities."-Idris Robinson
Read this for the first time Wednesday, should've read it years ago. A text riddled with love and its failure, and because of that dialectically overflowing with life and mercy.
A few of the bangers I've read that have either come out this year or I've discovered them this year (topsters isn't the best for cropping, so I've listed them in the Alt Text).
Good Friday, or as Hegelians call it, day of the Absolute's self-representation in the moment of immediate self-conscious Individuality confronting Absolute Negativity as its object.
I invite Landians to embrace the NRX slogan of "no voice, free exit", shut up and fuck off. I have no further interest in indulging that man's hydraulic despotism after reading what I've read of this hasbeen provocateur and his paranoiac racist prattle. This isn't for discussion.
The fascist anti-trans protests this weekend were predominantly oriented towards in terms of content production. They showed up to film themselves and generate media, which is why the aim of the counters was to generate noise to render it unusuable. 1/n
The facial recognition system of the IOF, known as the "wolf" system, is maintained by tech sold by the Dutch TKH security and Chinese Hikvision. Facial recog technology is essential to what Amnesty International call "Automated Apartheid". Find out more:
Dystopian. Evil. A checkpoint with a camera/facial recognition and a loudspeaker tormenting Palestinian refugees as they are forced to flee their homes: “Khaled Mashal did you send your suit to the dry cleaning today?” followed by “women and children pass only.” A genocide.
My PhD funding on Stirner was specifically given to me by my CIA handler, to divide the left by disrupting the dialectics of the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism MWAHAHAHA *lightning*.
On Georges Bataille's bday, I wrote a summary of his method and his post-Hegelian rationalism in the theory of Non-knowledge, presenting his concepts of sovereignty, inner experience, and the impossible as a transcendental condition.
BREAKING: More than 700 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel on Sunday in 11 boats, new figures show - the highest since Labour came to power.
Started reading Toscano's Late Fascism and now I want to nail this passage to the door of every self-proclaimed "Left" Pundit and Prole-Whispering Red-Brownist like Martin Luther.
Flatline Constructs foreword is done. I explain the CCRU's temporal philosophy based in Marx and D&G whilst showing where Marx's love of horror leads Fisher into a cybernetic fusion of vampirism and techno-labour struggle. It's called "A Gothic Introduction to Temporal Warfare".