Always interesting how manias for disincarnation resist the implications of silence being maximally invisible
McLuhan describing the gnostic direction of modernists/symbolists, where nature was made into an artifact, autonomous, verbal, with grammatical structure, replacing being/nature, not unlike the promise of LLMs.
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Among strats to banish God from Earth the attempt to force the elemental desacralization of the human body must surely rank among the most audacious
I recently had a conversation with a very informed person about what's coming. A lot of it will have to do with non-sexual reproduction. They will be able to cultivate sperm and eggs from the cells of one individual or a same-sex couple, etc. They will be able to create "chimeras." Meaning what normal people might call hybrid part-animal beings.
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Seeing respected analysts post that Jensen must resign. Seeing respected analysts post that Jensen must not resign. Not (as yet) seeing respected analysts post that Jensen must appear to resign, but must remain in charge.
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There’s something without which “creativity” turns either cancerous in its outgrowth or cannibalistic in its ingrowth. When this happens at high enough frequency we begin to see both converge - terminal self referentiality consuming all. Ofc Baudrillard speaks of this
This phenomenon has become a problem in every creative medium to such a degree that there should really be a name for it.
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What are you taking to heart, anon?
"There are more than a few conceivable ways to structure technological advancement under spiritual authority, to which the faithful among the world’s religions will doubtless soon give voice."
Technology becomes a spiritual problem as it becomes able to test the heart
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It's eastern Europe's world, we're just living in it...
I think what Tarkovsky was trying to do is break the sci-fi genre that focuses solely on showcasing advance technology of the future and rather explore human conditions (psychology, morality, spirituality, loneliness, memory, guilt and existential dilemmas) in that future.
In mentary Voyage in Time (1983), Tarkovsky speaks about how he considers Solaris his "artistic failure" and preferred Stalker over it because he felt Solaris remained somewhat trapped within the conventions of science fiction.
"Inner, hidden, human problems, moral problems, always engage me far more than any questions of technology." — Andrei Tarkovsky
But I think what Kubrick was trying to do in 2001: A Space Odyssey is to show how humans use technology as a measure of civilizational growth (it was evident from that famous bone to satellite cut).
In that case, Kubrick cannot avoid showcasing futuristic technology because technology itself is central to his philosophical argument.
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It isn’t so much that people want Anakin to reign.
Or that every election is a referendum on the previous one.
The deeper longing in culture—one that has been growing steadily for 20 years— is symbolically represented in this story:
When will the true king return and bring suitors’ reign?
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Dredging up Digger’s Girardian Code
The waterlogged sci-fi fable is a mirror for techno-princes.
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...Baudrillard’s corrective is hardly to shore up de-Christianizing nations susceptible to the Antichrist with nationalist conservative values.
To the contrary, Baudrillard insists that the event horizon of the simulacrum is already closed, the catastrophic implosion of the world system is already in progress, and the inescapable aftermath will slowly transition everyday life from a hypernormal state of perpetual emergency to a gigafried gray reset. Baudrillard highlights what Thiel prefers to occlude: because only technique can strongly simulate a substitute for Spirit, the totalitarian safety system can only run on ever more escalated technologization—a strategy that must implode because the last remaining threat to safety must necessarily be that posed by the complete consumption of all subjects by one, unitary, total technological object. In this sense, for Baudrillard, cybernetics is already useless; the only system that can now be useful is the most useless one: pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions.
But another way of saying this, perhaps, is that the seeming superintelligent obsolescence of cybernetics—wherein “what such machines offer is the spectacle of thought, and in manipulating them people devote themselves more to the spectacle of thought than to thought itself”—can only be salvaged pataphysically, by the introduction into cybernetic control systems of the one thing that would logically seem to be most incompatible with cybernetic controls.
This is what Digger, in its relentless elaboration of the unceasingly unsustainable and the perpetually imploding, silently recommends: neither the fake Christianity of performative prayer nor the national-conservative values of calling in the airstrikes and nepotistic resilience; neither the frenetic conversion of excessive energy into mimetic distractions nor the rationing of depleted spiritual power for rote moments of canned catharsis. Neither the turbo-American Digger regime nor the post-apocalyptic bog of global Europoverty provide a salubrious model of technopolitical governance.
Is Iñárritu’s not-so-secret third thing—whether he knows it or not—merely the reintroduction of at least some spiritual authorities we can trust into the upper echelon of technological system controls?
ansible.pub/p/dredging-up-…
The waterlogged sci-fi fable is a mirror for techno-princes.
- - -
...Baudrillard’s corrective is hardly to shore up de-Christianizing nations susceptible to the Antichrist with nationalist conservative values.
To the contrary, Baudrillard insists that the event horizon of the simulacrum is already closed, the catastrophic implosion of the world system is already in progress, and the inescapable aftermath will slowly transition everyday life from a hypernormal state of perpetual emergency to a gigafried gray reset. Baudrillard highlights what Thiel prefers to occlude: because only technique can strongly simulate a substitute for Spirit, the totalitarian safety system can only run on ever more escalated technologization—a strategy that must implode because the last remaining threat to safety must necessarily be that posed by the complete consumption of all subjects by one, unitary, total technological object. In this sense, for Baudrillard, cybernetics is already useless; the only system that can now be useful is the most useless one: pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions.
But another way of saying this, perhaps, is that the seeming superintelligent obsolescence of cybernetics—wherein “what such machines offer is the spectacle of thought, and in manipulating them people devote themselves more to the spectacle of thought than to thought itself”—can only be salvaged pataphysically, by the introduction into cybernetic control systems of the one thing that would logically seem to be most incompatible with cybernetic controls.
This is what Digger, in its relentless elaboration of the unceasingly unsustainable and the perpetually imploding, silently recommends: neither the fake Christianity of performative prayer nor the national-conservative values of calling in the airstrikes and nepotistic resilience; neither the frenetic conversion of excessive energy into mimetic distractions nor the rationing of depleted spiritual power for rote moments of canned catharsis. Neither the turbo-American Digger regime nor the post-apocalyptic bog of global Europoverty provide a salubrious model of technopolitical governance.
Is Iñárritu’s not-so-secret third thing—whether he knows it or not—merely the reintroduction of at least some spiritual authorities we can trust into the upper echelon of technological system controls?
ansible.pub/p/dredging-up-…
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The only Digger review you’ll ever need ansible.pub/p/dredging-up-…
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the slop cannon is cool but have you tried the youtube.com/watch?v=p4owhY…
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The Iran SMO: key to the exasperation is it hasn’t taken place like a war, yet isn’t just an “intervention”.
Like so much, it has taken on a postmodern form resistant to modern agency — leading people to lash out as citizens more or less blindly in what diminished way they can
Like so much, it has taken on a postmodern form resistant to modern agency — leading people to lash out as citizens more or less blindly in what diminished way they can
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Critical theory/Critical thinking
Diversity is our strength/Heresy is our strength
Every month is pride month/Make America proud again
Probably at least a dozen more of these
Diversity is our strength/Heresy is our strength
Every month is pride month/Make America proud again
Probably at least a dozen more of these
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