The plot of the third season of HBO’s Westworldย takes an unexpected leap: in moving from the titular park to the external world, what is found is not the anarchic capitalism of the cyberpunk genre that so influenced it, but an earth held under the sway of an invisible regime of near-total planning and administration. Not […]
Read More The Haze of PosthistoryA delicious bit from Hartmut Rosa’sย Social Acceleration (which inevitability comes to overlap with discussion of his notion of the ‘frenetic standstill’ that I wrote about in my last post, particularly in respect to the kind of retro-historical remixing that characterizes contemporary ‘chronosickness’): While history took on the character of a directed and politically shapable movement […]
Read More Repetition of the Demiurge: Time & Difference in Deleuze and Dugin
Reciprocal Contradiction 