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Nick Srnicek: A Review of Platform Capitalism

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Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Nick Srnicek in Platform Capitalism emphasizes capitalism’s dyanamism, its need for innovation and “constant technological change,” along with this he provides a history in “deskilling technologies,” or what many term the dumbing down…

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Nick Land: Amazons and the Post-Capitalist World

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Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
A great many of Nick Land’s critics have never actually read his early work or his essays collected in Fanged Noumena, and even if they gave it a cursory…

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Machinic Desire (Nick Land Excerpts)

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Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Nick Land: Machinic Desire (Excerpts): Anti-Oedipus is less a philosophy book than an engineering manual; a package of software implements for hacking into the machinic unconscious, opening invasion channels.…

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Zizek Weighs in on Yesterday’s Brexit Vote

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Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
“Recall Mao Ze Dong’s old motto: “Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.” A crisis is to be taken seriously, without illusions, but also as…

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Arthur Kroker: Hyperstitional Gazer of Futurity

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Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
“Post-history has been ‘driftworks,’ an indeterminate and increasingly violent series of technological experiments on the horizon of existence itself: the acceleration of space under the sign of digital culture…

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The Abstraction That Is The World

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Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
The spectacle was born from the world’s loss of unity, and the immense expansion of the modern spectacle reveals the enormity of this loss. The abstractifying of all individual…

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Exit Strategies: Kickstarter Projects for Leaving Capitalism?

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Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
One could imagine a Kickstarter Project: Exit the Future or The Promethean Projeckt … the creation of an exit strategy game that allows the disaffected of world to participate. Hype…

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Skynet Rising: IBM and Deep Learning for Nuclear Arsenal

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Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
On ZDNet Danny Palmer describes IBM’s ‘brain-inspired’ supercomputer to help watch over US nuclear arsenal: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will use the new system to “explore new computing capabilities”…

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The Future of Techno-Socialist City States

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Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
“We don’t really believe in democracy.” The tech futurists behind Sui Generis, a Montreal-based company with ambitious plans to jumpstart stagnant nations with networks of startup-friendly city-states, don’t see…

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Deleuze & Guattari: Human Rights Are Not Universal

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Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
A friend was not happy with Deleuze and Guattari’s statement: “Human rights say nothing about the immanent modes of existence of people provided with rights.” He would say: “There…

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