>The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.
>The body count climbs through a series of globewars. Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world disorder through compressing phases. Deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace.
>By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex.
What's the difference between techno-economic and techonomic?
Christian Davis
not sure if you are being sincere about some concept for a novel but these just read as highly verbose and intellectually shallow descriptions of what is the state of today and where we're heading
Luis Wright
What's the difference between a World War and a globewar?
Henry Peterson
Is this Nick Land?
Angel Sanders
Globewar sounds cooler. Mashing two words together without modifying either of them is very cyberpunk.
Joshua Anderson
You missed an opportunity to use the term "mashwords."
Cooper Evans
Yep.
Brayden Robinson
Who thought these dorky cards would be a good idea?
Ian Garcia
something about attributing agency to these large, non-human entities really fascinates me. other than Land and Negarestani in Cyclonopedia, who else does this?
Noah Brown
Some NRx guys, I think. Perhaps some more classic cyberpunk art is in order.
Personally I don't think NL is a meme. He really could be called the proto-philosopher of cyberpunk, which is legit interesting. True, he also performed one of the most intense LARP sessions of cyberpunk/SF ever, mixed in with Lovecraft and Deleuze and so on, together with a lot of drugs, which is what produced that essay - and it's much more readable than the others.
You'd think this would be sexy and cool and awesome but apparently not so much. You can read more here if you want.
Graham Harman Jane Bennett Giulio Tononi David Chalmers Manuel DeLanda
Mason Cook
Land and Negarestani are both fascinating guys to read. Eugene Thacker and Ben Woodard also write super-depressing stuff if you're into that. There's lots of other dark stuff too, Brassier, Meillassoux, and so on. Graham Harman is kind of cheerful and he's still a Heideggerian...anyways.
Urbanomic always has fun things to destroy your mind with.
Logan Powell
thanks, friends. any particular works by these authors you'd recommend?
Josiah Martinez
>Giulio Tononi
This guy seems out of place on this list from his wiki page, what's up with him? Not a philosopher?
Jason Fisher
>This guy seems out of place on his wiki page, what's up with him?
Quantum physicist Scott Aaronson has argued against IIT by reductio, concluding that IIT implies that objects like rocks are conscious, which seems an absurd conclusion. Tononi has replied by embracing the absurdity, thus making him a kind of panpsychist.
Harman's Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics. Bennett's Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Tononi and Edelman's A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination. Chalmer's The Conscious Mind. DeLanda's A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History.
Zachary White
Well, Thacker has three books called The Horror of Philosophy. I sort of glanced through them last year, I found them slightly overdone IIRC. But w/evs.
Woodard's 'On an Ungrounded Earth' was better. These guys seem to be in a kind of a race to the atomic level of nihilism, who can be absolutely the most miserable. I love the writing and it is important, don't get me wrong. Geophilosophy and post-Deleuzian stuff and so on are interesting subjects, and all these guys are way smarter than me. Depressing af tho.
Seconding also Manuel DeLanda, although this is from the little I've read of him.
And while it's not philosophy, you'll probably enjoy House of Leaves if you haven't read it already. Think of Borges if for some reason he decided to make a horror movie.
Josiah Morales
thanks! looks like i have a deep pool to dive into.
Ryder Ward
it was a summary of the last three bowel movements Charles Stross had.
Samuel Lee
techo comes from the spanish meaning ceiling and nomic from the greek nomos 'law', ceiling glass, your economic limit, the p-value you produce in the probabilistic function that is this eternal flux of everchanging capital
Adrian Brown
Burroughs in his Nova Trilogy treats language and drug addiction and a few other 'systems of control' as extraterrestrial viruses. Pretty sure Land cites Burroughs as an influence.
