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Alexander Karp's Iron Cage: A Review of The Technological Republic
I wanted to love it, but Alexander Karp's new book is a mess of contradictions and a bloody revenge by the Frankfurt School against the school of American Optimism.
Deregulation and the State Arms-Race Each Other Into Cyberspace
Reading Nick Land's Meltdown sentence by sentence.
The Body Count Climbs Through a Series of Globewars
Reading Nick Land's Meltdown sentence by sentence.
Markets Manufacture Intelligence, Politics Upgrades Paranoia, and Tries to Get a Grip
Reading Nick Land's Meltdown sentence by sentence.
Manny Farber's Rhizome
An exploration of Manny Farber's aesthetic philosophy of 'Termite Art vs. White Elephant Art' and its connection to rhizomatic thinking.
Walls as a Service
The removal of walls decreases the fraction of relevant space under your control.
Logistically Accelerating Techno-Economic Interactivity
Reading Nick Land's Meltdown sentence by sentence.
How Renaissance Rationalization and Oceanic Navigation Locked Into Commodotization Takeoff
On the first sentence of Nick Land's Meltdown.
The Life of Spinoza as an Independent Scholar
How did a lens-grinder who published only two failed books during his lifetime become one of the most influential philosophers in history? The keys to Spinoza's success as an independent scholar.
On Angelicism and Post-Academic Futures
Become imperceptible, not illegible.
Angels and Communication
How the visible world hangs together.
Wittgenstein's Religion
"The facts of the world are not the end of the matter." —Wittgenstein
Urbit and the Telos of the Creator Economy
A long-running historical gradient suggests that individuals will enjoy full control over the creation, distribution, and monetization of their work, eventually evading all centralized platforms and arbitrary constraints.
What to Do After the Orgy
Baudrillard famously asked, "What are you doing after the orgy?" Our answer: Take a leap of faith about the ultimate truth, then harness the chaos of modernity to bring that truth into being.
Ask for the Truth: Marshall McLuhan's Catholicism
"Wham! I became Catholic the next day."
Society Is a Corpse That Purges at the Mouth
On Mary Moody Emerson.
The Montaigne Paradox
The greatest social power is achieved by withdrawing from society.
Write to Yourself and Yourself Alone
Sibi scribere.
Looking for Spinoza by Antonio Damasio: Detailed Summary
Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain.
Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier: Detailed Summary
Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard: Detailed Summary
A detailed summary of René Girard's account of mimetic desire, scapegoating, violence, and Christianity.
Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest by Nick Land: A Detailed Guide
The high-water mark of revolutionary Deleuzian Feminism.
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre: A Detailed Guide
A critique of modern moral discourse and a proposal to revive the Aristotelian tradition of virtue ethics.