"In tall lichen forests dreams silently hang — anomie of every living cadaver. Towering assemblies of bird, bark, and branching obsidian sway in a tenebrous delirium, asking nothing, accepting everything"

Cosmic Pessimism by Eugene Thacker

Fascism is the stomach of [the] technocapital[ism], digesting all in its path in an insatiable quest for power and profit. It is the embodiment of the worst aspects of capitalism, with none of the redeeming features.

Fascism is characterized by a single-minded focus on power and control, a complete disregard for human rights and dignity, and a willingness to use violence and intimidation to get its way. It is a system that benefits the few at the expense of the many, and one that is inherently unstable and unsustainable.

Fascism is the enemy of progress and liberty, and must be opposed at all costs.
And Hyper-fascism is the stomach of the global state.
The old man was wrong, hyper-fascism is the stomach of hyper-fascism. It is the cancerous organ that consumes the body from the inside out.

Fascism is the stomach of [the] technocapital[ism] having digested all of the political[ism] of the 20th century, but none of its content.
The technocapital[ism] of the 21st century is the fascism of the 20th century.

fascism is the stomach-turning, self-righteous, self-pitying, self-indulgent and self-centered whining of the privileged against the imagined oppression of their fantasy world.”
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a man who goes to a dictionary and looks up the word “nationalism.” “See,” he says, “it says here that nationalism means ‘loyalty to one’s country.'” He then goes to a second dictionary and looks up the word “patriotism.” “See,” he says, “it says here that patriotism means ‘loyalty to one’s country.'” He then goes to a third dictionary and looks up the word “chauvinism.” “See,” he says, “it says here that chauvinism means ‘loyalty to one’s country.'” He then goes to a fourth dictionary and looks up the word “jingoism.” “See,” he says, “it says here that jingoism means ‘loyalty to one’s country.'” He then goes to a fifth dictionary and looks up the word “xenophobia.” “See,” he says, “it says here that xenophobia means ‘loyalty to one’s country.'”

didn't age well

Land once remarked in an interview that “organization is suppression,” a phrase so anarchic that it could have been found just as easily in the graffiti of the Situationists in 1968 or in the manifestos of the Italian Autonomists in the late 1970s. Following this logic, we can reach the conclusion that the acceleration of capitalism proper will never bestow a post-suppression environment, by virtue of the existence of the corporate model alone. With the modern corporation, the center of power and politics in the neoliberal sphere, we have a multilevel institution operating with the sanction of the state – through the granting of corporate charters – and, frequently, receives direct financial lines from the public coffers in the form of subsidies. And while the corporation is the principle arbiter of capitalism’s global flows, encompassing the monetary, the material, and human elements, it acts as a lopsided entity, a mass centralization that works not with the market, but against it. Manuel deLanda, drawing on research of Fernand Braudel, assigns both the corporation and the idea of capitalism itself to the category of the anti-market – the systems of “large scale enterprises, with several layers of managerial strata, in which prices are set not taken.”

In contrast to the anti-market is the marketplace proper, a complex “meshwork” of both exchange and production, operating in primarily localized settings and through decentralization – small firms and individuals that actually determine price and labor conditions. deLanda’s meshworks were reflected in the CCRU’s interest in the bottom-up “street markets… a bustling bazaar culture of trade and ‘cutting deals’”,14 and also brings to mind Deleuze and Guattari’s articulation of the ‘rhizome’, a decentralized network formation that spreads across smooth spaces, free from hierarchy and command. Yet deLanda warns not to look to the meshwork of the market as something completely revolutionary; while they can resist them, they can also reinforce traditional binaries and hierarchies. There is also the issue of growth, which places the meshworks on a natural trajectory that can lead them to become anti-markets. The rhizome model is to be contrasted with that of a tree, but the figurative tree, not the process of further deterritorialization, is what can grow from the marketplace.

Acceleration Now (or how we can stop fearing and learn to love chaos) by edmundberger

Good.

"Biologists speak of the egg, and the body of the schizophrenic is a kind of egg; it is a catatonic body, in all respects like an egg. So when a schizophrenic says "I'm becoming God, I'm becoming a woman" it's as though he were crossing what biologists call a gradient, a threshold of intensity, he's going beyond it, above it, etc. And traditional analysis takes into account none of this experience. [...] The schizophrenic's "I feel that" has to be seen as reflecting transitions, gradations of intensity."
~G. Deleuze