Monthly Archives: March 2018

Originally posted on DI Research Zone 22:
On twitter, Uri tweets: https://twitter.com/cyborg_nomade/status/978434307923554304 While accelerationist discourse (at least that outside of the explicitly left variety) seems to skip around the issue of climate change, the overlap of catastrophic ecological transitions with technomic…

@evgenymorozov seeks to distinguish this from his own take on neo-feudalism: “Bannon named “digital sovereignty” as one of the three big forces shaping his brand of populism in the FT event. Yet, his is the sovereignty of the bourgeois subject, … Continue reading →

“It is in conditions of this sort that the propensity to political revolt begins to fester. Universal alienation from a burdensome daily life in the city is everywhere in evidence.5 But so are the innumerable attempts on the part of individuals, … Continue reading →

‘A seemingly free choice is actually determined by systems […] to the point that there are people who try to facilitate choice through computers, by providing a sort of match.’ https://t.co/EatFMQGqs6 https://demystification.co/mmittee/projects/la-machine-informatique/

“Internationale Situationniste #6 (August 1961) Translated by Ken Knabb 1. Nothingness of Urbanism and Nothingness of the Spectacle URBANISM DOESN’T EXIST; it is only an “ideology” in Marx’s sense of the word. Architecture does really exist, like Coca-Cola: though coated … Continue reading →