Category: philosophy
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Black Flag White Paper by Cody Wilson
My post The Occult Designer was recently featured in Cody Wilson’s last piece of writing, The Black Flag White Paper. It focuses on the conflict between Deterrence Dispensed and Wilson’s GunCad, which makes files conceived by the firsts publicly available. Because Deterrence Dispensed wanted to make $ with these files and their donation model did…
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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 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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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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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…
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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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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)…