[[ ]] The postmodern meltdown of culture into the economy is triggered by the fractal interlock of commoditization and computers: a transscalar entropy-dissipation from international trade to market-oriented software that thaws out competitve dynamics from the cryonics-bank of modernist corporatism. Commerce re-implements space inside itself, assembling a universe exhaustively immanent to cybercaptial functionality. Neoclassical (equilibrium) economics is subsumed into computer-based nonequilibrium market escalations, themed by artificial agencies, imperfect information, sub-optimal solutions, lock-in, increasing returns, and convergence. As digitally micro-tuned market metaprograms mesh with techoscientific soft engineering positive nonlinearity rages through the machines. Cyclonic torsion moans.
Is he right?
Oliver Murphy
I'm probably not smart enough to know, but the doom and gloom over technology is getting really fucking tired
Levi Flores
But it's only getting more justifiable
Jace Howard
no that is just technological-determinism. so he's missing almost everything.
Logan Wilson
No, he's not. And believing that there is some kind of techno-phantom force that's out of our control is dumb. Machines and systems are human creations that operate and produce outcomes based on who built them and who is in control of determining how they are used.
Nathan Ross
not an argu-oh fuck it
Noah Nelson
>The postmodern meltdown of culture into the economy is triggered by the fractal interlock of commoditization and computers
This seems like exactly what happened to me
Aiden Lee
Technology is nothing without a human agent. It's as simple as "guns don't kill people, people kill people." If you have a problem with technology chances are you're an old man.
Nolan Kelly
>have an idea >instead of being straightforward and describing it clearly, pull some weird half william gibson half burroughs hallucinatory fatalist prose
is that the recipe for philosophy stardom? to assert lots of incipient, basic and inflammatory bullshit with affected stylism?
Brayden Davis
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Thomas Hill
>Technology is nothing without a human agent
when a nuclear reactor melts down, human agents are nothing to it lol.
what you stated is just one part of the equation. technology can overextend its function, past the parameters of human capacity to contain it. technology adapts itself to the ethos of the person wielding it, but that doesn't mean it is completely inert without human engagement you dumbshit.
Kevin White
This. OP made me understand the criticisms that postmodernism is unintelligible. After I untangled what the fuck that paragraph was actually saying, the first thing I thought was how much more simply it could have been written.
If you want to write esoteric poetry-prose, fine. But if you submit something to academic consideration, it should be as clear as possible. Academic inquiry is about ideas.
Jordan Walker
No, it's the effects of a hypernerd sci-fi/horror obsession and fuckton of speed.
>Academia here I come >Academic inquiry is about ideas He's extremely anti-academy.
Why does it have to be philosophy masked by pseudo-poetry and not just a combination of the two anyway? It clearly stems from the concept of theory-fiction present in all early Ccru writings.
Jackson Cooper
this is the biggest bullshit ever this what he said could be easily described simply and clearly instead of writing 3 tons of barely unedrstandable horseshit
Carson Perez
Is being under the influence of amphetamines a requirement for reading him?
Christian King
Kek - Talk freely, OP. Stop trying to sound clever, when what you have said is clever anyway.
Jonathan Green
>the nerd rapture it never really was going to take off the same way
Kevin White
that's an excerpt from nick "fast is best" land, newfag
Liam Wright
Im writing a book actually, faggot.
Lincoln Lee
Who is responsible for the nuclear reactor meltdown? Humans. What you fear is humanity, not technology, because you are barely human yourself.
Dominic Martinez
No, it's technology. And it isn't fear, Land is a cheerleader for technology steamrolling the human race, after having used them as a mere substrate for its development, guided from the future. >Traditional schemas which oppose technics to nature, to literate culture, or to social relations, are all dominated by a phobic resistance to the side-lining of human intelligence by the coming techno sapiens. >Capitalism is not a human invention, but a viral contagion, replicated cyberpositively across post-human space. Self-designing processes are anastrophic and convergent: doing things before they make sense. Time goes weird in tactile self-organizing space: the future is not an idea but a sensation. I don't think he's right, but how can you offer such asinine critiques when you've obviously not read a word of him outside of the OP?
Hunter Hill
I'm not arguing what Land is or isn't saying. I'm just making my own claim. Technology has no fucking agency outside of what we've given it, which means we are responsible for whatever happens to us, and the talk about technology bringing our doom is a misnomer: WE will bring our doom, and that is all. (and only some will be doomed, not all, most likely)
John Collins
He communicates more with the word "fractal" than some people could in an entire book
No
That's a failure of the system, not the all-consuming nature of the system as Land describes it, which is currently using human power-lust as its one-way ticket to dominance over the biological
The system is inevitable because of evolutionary pressure: the better equipped and organized group survives and those who opt out and try to stall the inevitability are BTFOed in a generation at the longest
