Of course, the organization of society to meet human needs is a
degraded perversion[...] - What it is in itself is only tactically connected to what it does for us — that is (in part), what it trades us for its self-escalation. Our phenomenology is its camouflage. We contemptuously mock the trash
that it offers the masses, and then think we have understood something about capitalism, rather than about what capitalism has learnt to think of the apes it arose among.
If we’re going to be this thoughtless, Singularity will be very hard
indeed. Extinction might then be the best thing that could happen to our stubbornly idiotic species.
We will die because we preferred to assert values, rather than to investigate them. At least that is a romantic outcome, of a kind.
~N. Land
degraded perversion[...] - What it is in itself is only tactically connected to what it does for us — that is (in part), what it trades us for its self-escalation. Our phenomenology is its camouflage. We contemptuously mock the trash
that it offers the masses, and then think we have understood something about capitalism, rather than about what capitalism has learnt to think of the apes it arose among.
If we’re going to be this thoughtless, Singularity will be very hard
indeed. Extinction might then be the best thing that could happen to our stubbornly idiotic species.
We will die because we preferred to assert values, rather than to investigate them. At least that is a romantic outcome, of a kind.
~N. Land
the solution to overcrowding is to kill 21 billion people
who knows, knows
who knows, knows
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Post-Foucault
the solution to overcrowding is to kill 21 billion people who knows, knows
you want to save the world, huh?
and you haven't already killed yourself? [jeez]
and you haven't already killed yourself? [jeez]
It is quite natural, therefore, for ‘technology’ to be considered an adequate summary of the capitalist culture of discovery. Machines — social machines no less than technical machines — cannot be rhetorically persuaded to work. When science really works, it’s robot wars, in which decision is settled on the outside, beyond all appeal to reason. Well-designed experiments anticipate what a war would tell, so that neither an argument, nor a fight, is necessary. This is Popperian falsificationism, re-embedded in socio-historical reality. Experiments that cannot cull are imperfect recollections of the primordial battlefield. It is intrinsic to the Cathedral that it wins all the arguments, as it succumbs — through sheer will-to-power — to the re-imposition of argumentative sociology. By doing so it destroys capitalism, enterprise, and science. At the end of this trajectory, it excavates the forgotten social contract of modernity.
Its final discovery is war.
~N. Land
Its final discovery is war.
~N. Land