Author: marquis
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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…
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Nixon and the Second Coming
“You must be familiar with my favorite poem by Yeats, The Second Coming. Black Irish, very moving.” – Director of CIA in Nixon (Oliver Stone, 1995). The full scene can be found here: https://youtu.be/JWRVyaKnGcA?t=531 Rise of State Agencies During my last watch of Oliver Stone’s Nixon, I encountered a poem by Yeats, recited by Richard McGarrah…
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Geo-engineering: The Tech to Cool the Earth
“We absolutely must put an end to this crazy experiment of releasing billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.” Elon Musk The reality of climate change This article looks at geoengineering, a technique critical to the future of humanity, through the eyes of Make Sunsets, one of the first start-ups daring to implement it.…
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The Hyper-Sadism of the Patriarchic State
It was Eva’s morning. She was gently wake-up by her blindfold, which was integrating a sunrise alarm clock system. Blindfold that only this connected alarm system can unlock, otherwise it stays in place. Like everyday, her first vision is Gaspard. It was her husband, her lover, her owner. He has the physic and the curly…
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BABYLON A.D. II
I restarted a book I left ten years ago. Satellite Sister by Maurice Dantec, the sequel to its Babylon Babies. The story has an amazing cyberpunk setting, taking place in 2030, involving space race, global governance, UNollar, Richard Brandson. It’s the perfect Deus Ex bootleg. Unfortunately this book does not exist in English, but I…
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Dungeon News, May 2023
Here are some cool things I am working on. Urbit I am back to a 100% Urbit after a few months of errance, due to the fact that I did not perform a factory reset when switching from Port to Urbit’s CLI. I am still very bullish on Urbit especially because France (my native country)…
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Cars, engines of Eroticism
I am riding my car, a bound gagged girl in a truck.I am a rider,a sex criminal.A cybernetic organism.Me, the duct tape, the car, and soon the girl will only make one.With the chromed tape, my victim is on her way to merge with the machine.I crossed the bridge between mind and matter. Outside the…
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The Lack of Your Lashing
When browsing Twitter (a deadly addiction of mine) I encountered one of of @Agrumax_‘s tweets, about an unpublished piece where she has talking about her rapist. I am notorious for posing as a publisher, so why not… publishing? She accepted, translated her poem herself and here we are. If you too, want to publish on…
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Midlife bear market
My career is dead, my bank account is close to zero each month, most of my time is drawn into parenting and I am going to hit forty next year. I am inhabited by frustration, by the feeling that my life is going nowhere. Words need to be dropped: I am having my midlife crisis.…
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Cody Wilson, or Technology as Political mean
This article is translation of an article I originally wrote for Rage Magazine, Cody Wilson – la technologie comme moyen Politique. The year is 2012. A video promoting a project of 3D printable weapons was put online. In it, in a very Steve Jobs fashion, a guy named Cody Wilson launched the crowdfunding of the…