Category: Social Theory
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right about the problems but hilariously, tragically wrong about the solutions
Everyone seems to be talking or thinking or reading (about) Stewart Brand right now, which I presume must mean he’s made or making or about to make some new intervention in the culture.
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no one thinks deeply enough to notice
I have next to zero interest in that Wuthering Heights movie. So why did I read this long piece that takes it as a jumping-off point?
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other, earlier modes of living are fully open to us
I was amused and delighted to discover that David Wengrow actually shares certain philosophical territory with none other than Alan Moore.
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“community” as content, and as form
Schismogenesis and mimetic desire are the yin and yang dynamics at the heart of “community”. Stable cultures must presumably therefore have a good balance of the two.
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empty dreams, delivering not posthuman paradise but silicon oblivion
I chose my position on silicon sentience a long time ago, and my choice was not entirely rational, and I am totally at peace with that.