Tag: politics
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Prometheanism and apocatopia
I’m not sure quite how I discovered the post-nihilist bloggings of Arran James; I think he must have written something about the Neo-Reos or the Accelerationists that someone linked me to a while back. There’s something important in this closing passage from a longer think-piece on the rise of Prometheanism, which James hopes may represent an end to…
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Surveillance and legibility: systems of seeing
“Networks weird people.” Quinn Norton and Ella Saitta explain the yin-yang nature of network effects — and the complicity of hackers and “geek culture” in such — to the Chaos Communications Conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWg2qEEa9CE This is of considerable interest to me, for two reasons. First of all, because legibility is a big part of what my…