cross-posted at Second Power The grid is an accident in motion. Paul Virilio once said: When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Energy is Virilio’s dromology made incarnate: speed and infrastructure fused into a single…
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WEEKEND LINKS: the Logic of Imperial Corruption and Decay; the King as Sacred Scapegoat; Machines with Increasing Intelligence
American Realignment: “The critical point is to sever the ropes holding down the American giant by destroying a dying progressive colossus and retooling the country into a new light and agile state fit for navigating the ultra-rapid 21st-century global environment: the ultimate network state. The model is the Promethean America that existed in the late…
Money, Ever-Living Fire, and the Way of Angels
cross-posted here Maverick has a great piece at Man’s World Online examining cryptocurrency’s role in the evolution of money and its potential to concretize abstract ideas about freedom and truth. He looks at the work of classicist Richard Seaford along with Costin Alamariu to map the links between coinage and philosophy. “The pre-Socratics and the Socratics inherited a thoroughly…
ẅ̴͍é̷̞̲͐e̵̺̊͜ķ̷̥́̃e̸͎̣̼͂n̴̬̄d̸̡̈́ ̴̯̲̠̈́̾ĺ̸̯͎̯̈́i̷̻̼̚n̸̰̲̽̈̍k̴̖͆̊s̴̤̓̄: Pastoral Beauty; Entropy; Overkill
Beauty Is Not Just in the Eye of the Beholder: “It exists at the intersection of biological, cultural, and individual factors. It is much more malleable than we think. And what we find beautiful is broader than what is publicly expressed.” How Nature Became the Environment: “…while [Aldo] Leopold sought for balance between the lethal…
weekend links: winter solstice, holograms, furnace of the desert sun
Everything Everywhere All At Once: “In the seventh century in what is now Scotland but at the time was known as Northumbria, there lived a man named Cuthbert. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne. He was a bishop, a hermit, and a monk, back in the time before clerical careerism when one person could indeed be all of…
Mid-Week Links: Theories for the Damned, Cosmological Spiritual Wars, and Permanent Revolution
American Prometheus: “There are earth energies emanating from places across [New Mexico] that are healing and raising consciousness — Taos even has an audible hum. The official nickname of New Mexico is ‘The Land of Enchantment,’ and it enchanted the young [Oppenheimer]. The other meaning of enchantment — that of alchemy/magic/spirituality/occultism — also applies to…
🅦🅔🅔🅚🅔🅝🅓 🅛🅘🅝🅚🅢: Cultlands, Mercy, and Veneration for Angels
American Cultland — Greek Life Enculturating Debauched Robots: “…brutal lessons of totalitarianism and conformity. Indoctrination is responsibility. Abuse is friendship. Dissipation and lasciviousness is the height of living. And so, many hundreds of thousands automatons are born per year. ” An Everyday Mercy: “‘A child doesn’t learn metaphysics by reading books. He learns it by…
Disastrous Amateurism
Going to maybe start posting TV show or movie ideas. Fake TV shows, perhaps. Fake movies. Here’s one: DISASTROUS AMATEURISM Synopsis: The story of a rookie cop on the homicide beat who’s obsessed with philosophy — your Deleuzes, your Kants, your Lands, your Guattaris, your Batailles. Below is a demo for the TRUE DETECTIVE-like opening…
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…