At one point even Nancy Pelosi wanted single payer healthcare in the 90s, the dems can mold Newsom in their image

CR was from before his time, right? It's an okay book, I enjoyed it and it got me back into reading political theory, but I've leafed through it since and it's very mid. The term Market Stalinism is extremely funny tho. Trotskyism and its consequences

Lain sucks. I'm glad that when repeater bought zero back they didn't bring him along.

I agree about emulation. It is also emerges out of the moment where Deleuze and Guattari-influenced Accelerationist theory was all the rage, and that was the context that I read it in.

I read it much later than that, but I first came across a quote of it in an essay a bit over a decade ago and never forgot it. The book is quite poetic. Anyone not familiar with the CCRU (particularly Land) stuff and D&G would definitely struggle a bit because he freely uses that kind of terminology, but I feel like the writing is compelling enough that someone could still enjoy it without.

I know like two other people who have read it. Its a book with a small intended audience.

When I read it I would explain it to my partner and they would look at me like I was losing my mind lmao.

Have you ever found anything like it? I feel like anyone trying to emulate it would fall flat because it was compelling partly because it was pretty novel at the time. The only thing close for me is just reading a thousand plateaus, which has a similar unhinged quality lol

Ian Wright's essays can have a similar vibe too, and is explicitly about Marxism

https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/

It can be a hard read at times because it's quite dense with esoteric theory. See my edit about Accelerando too, it's a fun read and packed with ideas.

If you like the first chapter of Cyclonopedia, there is a book called XYZT written by the same author (not Reza, but someone else). I haven't read this yet, but will be soon. I've heard mixed opinions on it.

Have you read Cyclonopedia? It's like the theory fiction book, and is quite a ride. It's like someone put post-structuralism and Persian mythology into a blender.

A lot of the Warwick CCRU stuff reads the same way, including the worst of all Nick Land lol. Reza was loosely associated with them, but has gone his own way since.

Less theory fiction, but has a similar vibe to the essay you posted is Accelerando by Charles Stross.

We live in hell

This is still posting.

I did not want to click that.

This is not just some cringe attempt to dehumanize them because of the war. Ukrainians were calling them orcs for years now even before the official invasion because.

1. Saying Russians are responsible for fake separatism in Donbas had them banned on social media for hate speech because it mentions nationality. So they started using LOTR term.

2. They come from the east.

Literally "asiatic horde" logic

It's a flex

Starting to think the French might be problematic

What was the actual final straw for their permaban? I dont remember

Had Biden tried posting in all caps, it may improve his approval rating

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg has already commented: "I don't think Putin's proposal on Ukraine is peaceful. NATO countries will continue to provide military support to Ukraine"

The blood God demands more blood

The bud and the flower are different, but like also the same bro. Like think about it. When the bud dissapears when it becomes a flower, it's like the flower refuted the bud, just like when the flower becomes a fruit dude. It seems like these things are kinda like false forms of each other, right? Like these stages aren't just different, but supplant one another because they are incompatible. But like this activity just makes them different moments of an organic unity. They don't just contradict one another, cause one is as necessary as the other. This equal necessity is what makes the life of the whole.

You could say this in stoner voice on tictok and sell some merch lol

Who the fuck thought that letting the company that can barely keep planes in the air should be allowed to send humans to space?

Well Yemen just lost their chance for a celebrity guest star who repeatedly asks your government for arms

All my homies hate Fitche

Fichte, [crowd boos], yeah, you know. Fichte, he's bad folks, don't read him. People come up to me everyday and ask "Trump, when does the synthesis happen?", they really do, and I have to tell them. Look, stop using the thesis-antithesis-synthesis talk, it's wrong. I tell them, read the phenomenology of spirit, and show me where Hegel says that? Guess what? You won't find it. Baron even knows this, Baron knows Hegel better than Hegel scholars. They don't even read him because he isn't woke. Can you believe it? Our big German boy, who gave us the tools to understand the world, they wont even read him. When you re-elect me, we are putting Hegel back into the schools. [crown cheers and chants "HEGEL"]

This is correct, but I did not enjoy this post. So you are actually reactionary