cross-posted at Second Power Photo by Brice Cooper Last month, I floated a concept that energy systems operate through dromology: speed, acceleration, and the accidents they generate. But nuclear power complicates this framework. Nuclear power’s temporal strangeness forces a reconceptualization of how tempo shapes power. My speed-based analysis reveals its limits when confronted with this…
Tag: petrochemical
LINKS: Vital Hatred; the Open Road; Primal Despotism
A Modest Defense of Hatred: “Where man is denied hatred, and he lacks any objective referent of meaning, he sinks into a lobotomized stupor. In such an age, the alternative to a vital hatred is the Last Man. It is in Nietzsche’s forecast of the logical consequences of nihilism where we see something remarkable—that the…