#1: A General Theory of Collaboration: “Anyone who reads Vaclav Havel’s Power of the Powerless will be struck by Havel’s portrait of Czechoslovakia forty years ago—with its voluntary window-slogans; its endless parade of crusades; its inexorable machinery of human cancellation. Havel had the right strategy for the subjects of the total state. First, they must…
Tag: accelerationism
Xenobuddhism
“Xenobuddhism is neither Buddhism nor accelerationism nor transhumanism. It is born from their convergence. It’s Buddhism once exposed to the mutagen…It’s the technocommercialist takeover of dharma in the realisation that techniques for realisation have outpaced humanity” — тцпдяапацт (@tundranaut) February 19, 2020 SOURCE
Tinnitus, Synesthesia, and Kantian Conditions
The Psuedoanalysis blog on tinnitus and Kantian conditions: “Rust Cohle from season 1 of True Detective suffers from synethesia, a properly Kantian condition. “He tastes colors, sees sounds, etc. For this condition, the senses are mixed or associated with one another without natural limits. This is, as I have pointed out elsewhere, part of what…
INTERVIEW: Sonya Mann — Cryptocurrency, Cypherpunk, and Exit
Sonya Mann Every few months or so I read a blog post or longform essay that animates me in such a way that I have to go back and read it a few more times or share it aloud with my significant other. “The Conversations that Cryptocurrency Killed,” authored by Bay Area writer Sonya Mann…
INTERVIEW: Justin Murphy #WeirdPoliticalTheory
JUSTIN MURPHY Q: You recently conducted an interesting study whose results probably surprised some people. Essentially, the data you’ve looked at seems to suggest that “radical leftists” and/or “the far left” are not necessarily the threat to free speech they are often portrayed as; rather, the problem free speech runs into is more complex and…