Author: marquis
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Orbital War One
Here is a short story, heavily inspired by Maurice Dantec’s sequel to Babylon Babies, Satellite Sisters. It is one of my favorite books, written where Elon Musk and Richard Branson escape to a private moon base while being chased by the UN 2.0. No English translation is available, but I translated a chapter myself last…
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On Maximizing Intelligence
What is a classic? It is something that persists over time, like Plato’s Republic or Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. We can even say it is something that survives, while most materials are things that always get replaced by the latest current thing. 4chan is more than 20 years old and has always…
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The Paul Atréides of Sadism
In the world I see – you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You’ll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You’ll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. – Tyler Durden Last week I was taken by a…
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The Occult Designer
[This illustration is a part of my Solana NFT Collection on exchange.art ] TL;DR : Forbidden Design + Occultism ≈ Use value maxxing. There were two major steps in my journey as a designer: my encounter with Cody Wilson’s work and my reading of Marx’s “Das Kapital”. I will delve more into the former in…
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I need $ for my Vision Pro
Level-1 or world space is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly visionconfigured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly. Garbage time is running out. Can what is playing you make it to level-2? – Nick Land, Meltdown There are two events. One is that I have finished working on a PDF publishing platform and found…
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“A good and generous man”
By a strange coincidence, when Justin Murphy shared his newsletter on Mussolini, I had just finished “Conversation Hitler-Mussolini”. A book that studies transcripts of meetings, letters and notes from third parties involved in the Mussolini-Hilter relationship between 1934-1944. His author, Pierre Milza, a Science Po teacher, is one of top-tier specialists of Mussolini. Like a…
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The letter K in Nick Land’s work
I recently encountered an array of concepts designated by the K letter and this in just a few weeks of the interval. They all deal with mathematics or physics. Most come from my reading of Nick Land’s Fanged Noumena, but not only. Kuber When reading Land’s Fanged Noumena, you will encounter the letter K numerous…
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Dungeon News, January 2024
As we embark on a new year, let us collectively harness the lessons and intellectual triumphs of the past to pave a path towards a year replete with enlightened discovery and profound wisdom. – ChatGTP 4, opening sentence from a high IQ individual wishing Happy New Year. Welcome back to the Accelerationist Party. Wish we…
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Whats is E/ACC?
What’s E/ACC (pronounced /ˈiːak/) ? At first it was a meme, distributed around Tweets, bios and Twitter spaces. Patient zero unknown. Newspapers started to talk about it, but only scratched the surface. This post is an attempt to reverse engineer E/ACC, to get its substance. Accelerationism First we need to define accelerationism. Accelerationism refers to…
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Roman Empire Did Not Fall: It Became Software
Imagine that the Roman Empire did not fall but just became Software? If the hardware of the Empire has disappeared, its memic image has definitively survived. What if the choice of Christianism, by the very last Roman emperor Constantin, was a virus designed to upload the Empire into some sort of memetic entity? All the…